Camille McEach­nie

The few par­ty sup­port­ers, who were at the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment's (PNM) camp in Scar­bor­ough, To­ba­go seemed stunned as the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly's (THA) elec­tion re­sults were re­vealed Mon­day night.

Some wept open­ly and oth­ers sat with flags tucked un­der their arms.

The stage that was set up for of­fi­cial speech­es was nev­er used.

In­stead, the par­ty's To­ba­go Coun­cil leader Tra­cy David­son-Ce­les­tine ad­dressed the me­dia on the ground, in front of the stage.

She con­ced­ed six seats.

The par­ty's re­search of­fi­cer Keigon De­noon and his fa­ther Cuth­bert De­noon, who were at the venue, spoke from their hearts.

"I feel de­pressed to know what PNM did years now and what is hap­pen­ing now. This is un­be­liev­able! This can't be re­al," he said.

He added:" For ex­am­ple, in Buc­coo/Mt Pleas­ant, we used to win by the thou­sands, and right now, we just won by over 100. I am not say­ing the area rep­re­sen­ta­tive is not good, but some­thing is wrong. The win­ning mar­gin is small."

His son, who is the PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil's re­search of­fi­cer, said he too was dis­ap­point­ed.

"I am grate­ful to see we did who not lose the elec­tion, but there was a tie. That may mean we could go back to the polls soon, so I hope the mem­bers of the par­ty would come out and sup­port the par­ty see­ing that we al­most lost the elec­tions."

He con­tin­ued: "This is a sign that the elec­torate is send­ing, and the par­ty has to lis­ten. We will en­sure that we put the nec­es­sary things in place to re­main the win­ning par­ty on the is­land."