To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) deputy po­lit­i­cal leader Dr Faith Breb­nor says new­ly elect­ed MPs Joel Samp­son and David Thomas are en­ter­ing Par­lia­ment with clear man­dates: to speak for To­ba­go, not for any po­lit­i­cal par­ty or per­son­al agen­da.

“Their man­date is very clear—has al­ways been clear—which is to speak on be­half of To­ba­go, not nec­es­sar­i­ly on be­half of any par­ty or for per­son­al gain,” Breb­nor said in a live in­ter­view on CNC3’s Morn­ing Brew.

She said both men were cho­sen not just for their ca­pa­bil­i­ties, but be­cause they un­der­stood the re­spon­si­bil­i­ty that came with the sup­port of 60,000 To­bag­o­ni­ans.

“The good thing is that they are not com­ing on their own. They are com­ing with the 60,000 To­bag­o­ni­ans who sup­port­ed them,” she said. “We are com­ing to this from such a place of hon­esty and tru­ly do­ing what we need to do.”

Breb­nor made it clear that while the TPP will sup­port na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment, it will not join the Cab­i­net. In­stead, she said, the par­ty will ne­go­ti­ate ex­ter­nal­ly and vote in Par­lia­ment based on To­ba­go’s in­ter­ests.

“We are go­ing to ne­go­ti­ate on the out­side and then vote on the in­side,” she said. “We do not want our To­ba­go East and To­ba­go West mem­bers to have the bur­den of col­lec­tive re­spon­si­bil­i­ty in a Cab­i­net that may want to do some­thing that goes against what the peo­ple of To­ba­go elect­ed them to rep­re­sent.”

She said this was al­ways the plan—even dur­ing the cam­paign trail.

“We were not go­ing to join up with any or­gan­i­sa­tion.”

Breb­nor said the change in tone from Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar was en­cour­ag­ing.

“She, in her in­au­gu­ra­tion speech, in essence said that she recog­nis­es To­ba­go as an equal part­ner. She recog­nis­es the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly as an ex­ec­u­tive with which she has to work.”

On the par­ty’s land­slide vic­to­ry, Breb­nor said it was not about one man or leader.

“This shows us that this re­quired all of us col­lec­tive­ly to be part of this strug­gle and to con­tin­ue fight­ing on be­half of To­ba­go,” she said. “This is not a Far­ley par­ty or a David par­ty or a Joel par­ty. This is for the peo­ple of To­ba­go.”

Breb­nor al­so con­firmed there will be no ear­ly THA elec­tions.

“At this point, we have no in­ten­tion of call­ing an ear­ly elec­tion or any­thing like that. We plan to go down to the wire, which is De­cem­ber 2025,” Breb­nor said, echo­ing com­ments made by Au­gus­tine when he spoke to the me­dia in Trinidad days ago.