?The Oil­field Work­ers Trade Union has con­grat­u­lat­ed new UNC Po­lit­i­cal Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar on her re­cent vic­to­ry. The union's pres­i­dent An­cel Ro­get al­so con­grat­u­lat­ed the par­ty's mem­ber­ship for tak­ing a bold and his­tor­i­cal step and move away from the tra­di­tion­al cul­ture of vot­ing. In a state­ment Ro­get said "the peo­ple have spo­ken." He said it sent a clear mes­sage that peo­ple were ready for a new type of pol­i­tics. He al­so ad­vised the par­ty's mem­ber­ship to en­cour­age their re­spec­tive par­lia­men­tary rep­re­sen­ta­tives to give their new po­lit­i­cal leader their un­equiv­o­cal sup­port in Par­lia­ment as Leader of the Op­po­si­tion. Some MPs were re­sist­ing a move to have Per­sad-Bisses­sar re­place par­ty founder and for­mer po­lit­i­cal leader Bas­deo Pan­day as Leader of the Op­po­si­tion. Ro­get said amidst the feel­ing of eu­pho­ria, there were crit­i­cal ques­tions re­gard­ing how the sys­tem of gov­er­nance would be changed. He said over the years there had been many po­lit­i­cal changes in the par­ties that have as­sumed the role of gov­ern­ment.

How­ev­er, he added, while faces had re­placed the old, the sys­tem of gov­er­nance re­mained the same. 'The so­ci­ety is cry­ing out for good lead­er­ship and good ex­em­plars to take the coun­try for­ward." Ro­get said the old sys­tem of gov­er­nance with dic­ta­tor­ship and cor­rupt politi­cians, cling­ing to pow­er at all cost, must now give way to a new and dy­nam­ic ap­proach, where the in­ter­est of the peo­ple must be re­spect­ed and, where coun­try must be placed first and fore­most." Un­for­tu­nate­ly, he said, this could be found in any of the cur­rent po­lit­i­cal par­ties, re­gard­less of how they pre­sent­ed them­selves. "It is for this rea­son that there now may be an op­por­tu­ni­ty with Kam­la as the new leader of the UNC to work with oth­er pro­gres­sive groups to be­gin the build­ing process to res­cue Trinidad and To­ba­go un­der a com­plete­ly new or­der. "Any­thing else will be just a con­tin­u­a­tion of our past mis­takes and will fail mis­er­ably," he added.