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Thursday, June 5, 2025

NTA pushes forward after Griffith’s exit and election defeat

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24 days ago
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The Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA) has pledged to press ahead with its po­lit­i­cal mis­sion, an­nounc­ing in­ter­nal elec­tions for 5 Sep­tem­ber 2025 fol­low­ing its fail­ure to win a seat in the 28 April gen­er­al elec­tion and the res­ig­na­tion of found­ing po­lit­i­cal leader Gary Grif­fith.

In­ter­im po­lit­i­cal leader Com­man­der Nor­man Din­di­al, who has as­sumed lead­er­ship du­ties, said the elec­tions would be “fair, trans­par­ent, and in­clu­sive—a true re­flec­tion of our de­mo­c­ra­t­ic val­ues”.

Grif­fith stepped down short­ly af­ter the elec­tion. Din­di­al said the move re­flect­ed “trans­paren­cy, in­tegri­ty, and ac­count­abil­i­ty—val­ues too of­ten ab­sent in our na­tion’s po­lit­i­cal land­scape”.

“In West­min­ster-style pol­i­tics, such tran­si­tions are cus­tom­ary; in Trinidad and To­ba­go, they re­main rare. That is pre­cise­ly what makes the NTA dif­fer­ent,” he said.

In a state­ment on Mon­day, Din­di­al re­ject­ed any no­tion of re­treat. “We are not de­feat­ed—we are just get­ting start­ed,” he de­clared.

He de­scribed the NTA as “a move­ment whose pres­ence, mes­sage and mis­sion are res­onat­ing with the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go”.

Sev­er­al mem­bers of the par­ty’s gov­er­nance team have al­so stepped down to al­low for “re­new­al and fresh per­spec­tives”. Din­di­al said their con­tri­bu­tions had laid the foun­da­tion for the next phase of the par­ty’s growth.

He out­lined the par­ty’s next steps, say­ing:

• “We will stay ground­ed in the com­mu­ni­ties, lis­ten­ing and serv­ing.

• We will ex­pand our na­tion­al foot­print with strong con­stituen­cy chap­ters.

• We will in­vest in youth, in­no­va­tion, and po­lit­i­cal ed­u­ca­tion.

• And above all, we will re­main re­lent­less in our mis­sion to de­liv­er dig­ni­ty, jus­tice, and trans­for­ma­tion for all.”

Re­flect­ing on lessons from the cam­paign, Din­di­al said the NTA would stay the course and con­tin­ue build­ing its plat­form.

“By 2030, the NTA will not be on the side­lines—we will be at the fore­front of na­tion­al lead­er­ship.”

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