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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Mickela: No mudslinging in Patriotic Front campaign

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Patriotic Front political leader Mickela Panday, left, speaks with former diplomat  Dhruv Chopra, his wife Vaishali and daughter Nilania during the party’s function at Twin Walls, La Romain, on Saturday.

Patriotic Front political leader Mickela Panday, left, speaks with former diplomat Dhruv Chopra, his wife Vaishali and daughter Nilania during the party’s function at Twin Walls, La Romain, on Saturday.

INNIS FRANCIS

Se­nior Re­porter

sascha.wil­son@guardian.co.tt

Pa­tri­ot­ic Front (PF) po­lit­i­cal leader Mick­ela Pan­day promis­es there will be no mud­sling­ing or di­vi­sive pol­i­tics in the par­ty’s cam­paign.

In her ad­dress at a func­tion held on her fa­ther, the late Bas­deo Pan­day’s 91st birth­day at the par­ty’s South Re­gion­al Of­fice at the Twin Walls com­pound, La Ro­main, on Sat­ur­day, she said her fa­ther gen­uine­ly be­lieved in non-dis­crim­i­na­tion and equal­i­ty for all.

Pan­day said that was the foun­da­tion on which the PF was built. She added that the par­ty is hu­man­i­tar­i­an and in­tends to rid the coun­try of di­vi­sive pol­i­tics.

“In do­ing so, we are not here to mud sling or send mes­sages of hate, fear, bit­ter­ness or to di­vide you. We are here to pro­vide hope for all our cit­i­zens in a very dark time in our na­tion’s his­to­ry. To­day, we have an­swered your call to chal­lenge the sta­tus quo and to change the cur­rent so­cial and po­lit­i­cal land­scape of Trinidad and To­ba­go,” she said

She promised to lead a fear­less cam­paign and that the PF will do things dif­fer­ent­ly.

“We stand at the precipice of a new era for our beloved na­tion, an era where the tired, frac­tured po­lit­i­cal land­scape of the past must give way to fresh vi­sion and to lead­er­ship root­ed in the prin­ci­ples that make us hu­man. For too long, we have suf­fered un­der par­ties that ped­dle di­vi­sion, that cling to pow­er while our peo­ple strug­gle,” she said.

Pan­day said T&T has lost eco­nom­ic op­por­tu­ni­ties be­cause in­dus­tries are closed down in­stead of fixed and her par­ty is com­mit­ted to en­gag­ing with work­ers, trade unions and rel­e­vant stake­hold­ers to rec­ti­fy eco­nom­i­cal­ly and so­cial­ly ir­re­spon­si­ble de­ci­sions.

She said the par­ty’s sym­bol, a heart in the na­tion­al colours, de­signed by for­mer gov­ern­ment min­is­ter John Humprey, rep­re­sents love for the coun­try and will­ing­ness to de­fend it.

Pan­day said the par­ty plans to con­test the 41 seats in the next gen­er­al elec­tion and nom­i­na­tions for po­ten­tial can­di­dates open to­day.


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