As the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) at­tempts to re­build fol­low­ing a ma­jor 26-13 de­feat at the poll last week, the par­ty’s Gen­er­al Coun­cil will elect new ex­ec­u­tive mem­bers to­day.

Ac­cord­ing to PNM’s Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Fos­ter Cum­mings, the po­si­tions of chair­man and vice chair­man would be de­ter­mined via se­cret bal­lot vot­ing in to­day’s sched­uled coun­cil meet­ing.

Cum­mings said this spe­cial Gen­er­al Coun­cil was re­quest­ed via a let­ter signed by 20 mem­bers.

The par­ty’s lead­er­ship was sig­nif­i­cant­ly re­duced af­ter for­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young re­signed as chair­man last Wednes­day.

For­mer deputy po­lit­i­cal leader Ro­han Sinanan al­so re­signed on Wednes­day af­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley re­signed as po­lit­i­cal leader.

Row­ley re­voked the ap­point­ments of Colm Im­bert and Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly as deputies - un­be­knownst to them - in a fi­nal act via a one-sen­tence let­ter be­fore demit­ting of­fice.

At present, the par­ty’s core lead­er­ship team con­sists of Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Fos­ter Cum­mings, La­dy Vice Chair Camille Robin­son-Reg­is and deputy po­lit­i­cal leader and head of the par­ty’s To­ba­go Coun­cil An­cil Den­nis.

While Gen­er­al Coun­cil mem­bers can nom­i­nate any­one any mem­ber once they are in good stand­ing in­clud­ing fi­nan­cial stand­ing, Cum­mings re­vealed he will not be of­fer­ing him­self for the po­si­tion of chair­man.

The po­si­tions of po­lit­i­cal leader and deputy po­lit­i­cal leader will re­main va­cant un­til the PNM holds its con­ven­tion at a date to be de­ter­mined.

Im­me­di­ate­ly fol­low­ing the Gen­er­al Coun­cil, Cum­mings said the lead­er­ship will meet to dis­cuss how soon that con­ven­tion could be held.