New­ly ap­point­ed Sen­a­tor and Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing, Phillip Alexan­der, is chal­leng­ing the out­come of the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion re­sult in the Port of Spain North/St. Ann’s West con­stituen­cy, claim­ing that the of­fi­cial re­sults do not re­flect the will of the peo­ple.

Ac­cord­ing to the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC), for­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young re­tained his seat with 7,243 votes. Alexan­der, who ran as the main chal­lenger for the Peo­ple's Em­pow­er­ment Par­ty (PEP), se­cured 2,597 votes—more than 4,600 votes be­hind the in­cum­bent.

De­spite the wide mar­gin, Alexan­der has pub­licly dis­put­ed the EBC’s fig­ures, claim­ing that he had ma­jor­i­ty sup­port among vot­ers in the con­stituen­cy.

“The num­bers re­port­ed by the EBC do not match what we saw on the ground,” he said on CNC3's The Morn­ing Brew.

“We are re­view­ing the process and gath­er­ing ev­i­dence to de­ter­mine the ap­pro­pri­ate next steps.”

Alexan­der fur­ther clar­i­fied that he is not re­quest­ing a re­count, stat­ing in­stead that “there is on­ly one way for­ward.” He added that he is will­ing to take the mat­ter all the way to the Privy Coun­cil, sig­nalling his in­tent to pur­sue the is­sue through the high­est avail­able le­gal chan­nels.

Young, who has served as Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for the area since 2015, has not com­ment­ed on Alexan­der’s claims.

The EBC, mean­while, has main­tained that the re­sults were cer­ti­fied in ac­cor­dance with es­tab­lished pro­ce­dures and elec­toral law.

Alexan­der was ap­point­ed to the Sen­ate and as a Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing on Wednes­day, mark­ing his for­mal en­try in­to Gov­ern­ment de­spite the loss at the polls.