Days be­fore Thurs­day's sec­ond-an­niver­sary ral­ly of the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship, the Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP)-a mem­ber of the coali­tion-is be­ing ad­vised to blank the event. Women's Af­fairs Of­fi­cer of the COP's Lopinot/Bon Air West con­stituen­cy, , in an in­ter­view with the T&T Guardian yes­ter­day, said: "None of the COP na­tion­al ex­ec­u­tive mem­bers should at­tend the event, be­cause of the way the par­ty is be­ing treat­ed by the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC)." Deputy po­lit­i­cal leader of the UNC, Hous­ing and En­vi­ron­ment Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal, said the PP would cel­e­brate its sec­ond an­niver­sary with a big ral­ly at Mid Cen­tre Mall in Ch­agua­nas on Thurs­day evening.

It will fea­ture ad­dress­es by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and the lead­ers of the four oth­er par­ties in the coali­tion, in­clud­ing the COP's Prakash Ra­mad­har. The COP lead­er­ship was un­suc­cess­ful in its de­mand to have San Fer­nan­do may­or Mar­lene Coudray re­moved af­ter she re­signed from the par­ty in March to suc­cess­ful­ly con­test the na­tion­al ex­ec­u­tive elec­tions of the UNC. The COP has said Coudray's con­tin­u­ing tenure as may­or is in breach of the Fyz­abad De­c­la­ra­tion of April 2010, which es­tab­lished the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship. Di­al said it would be in­ap­pro­pri­ate for any mem­ber of the COP ex­ec­u­tive to at­tend the ral­ly. "It would be a slap in our faces if we at­tend­ed that event," she added.

Di­al al­so said she was the on­ly mem­ber of the Lopinot/Bon Air West con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive who had not re­signed on Tues­day to join the UNC. Chair­man of the con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive Rawle Raphael and sev­en oth­ers re­signed over the al­leged un­sat­is­fac­to­ry rep­re­sen­ta­tion of their MP, COP deputy po­lit­i­cal leader Dr Lin­coln Dou­glas. Di­al said she agreed Dou­glas was not rep­re­sent­ing the peo­ple well. How­ev­er, she said she ad­vised the for­mer con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tives it would ben bet­ter to re­main in the par­ty and use oth­er means to have the MP ac­count. She said she was "very con­cerned" about a com­ment made by Dou­glas on the res­ig­na­tion of the ex­ec­u­tive mem­bers. Dou­glas re­port­ed­ly said there was "no love lost" by the res­ig­na­tions. Di­al said she want­ed to dis­tance her­self from the res­ig­na­tions. She was crit­i­cal of act­ing Prime Min­is­ter Jack Warn­er for say­ing Fix­in' T&T was be­ing ma­li­cious when it crit­i­cised his act­ing as PM. She said peo­ple and groups in T&T were free to speak their minds and it was im­prop­er to de­scribe the group as ma­li­cious.