Can­di­date for the post of Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), Karen Nunez-Tesheira, has writ­ten to the par­ty’s Elec­tions Su­per­vi­so­ry Com­mit­tee re­quest­ing da­ta on the num­bers of PNM mem­bers who vot­ed in the par­ty’s in­ter­nal elec­tion over the week­end.

This, as the elec­tions su­per­vi­so­ry team is sched­uled to meet by Wednes­day this week, to re­view the two-day vot­ing ex­er­cise and make rec­om­men­da­tions go­ing for­ward, be­fore the fi­nal day of vot­ing on Sun­day 4 De­cem­ber 2022, at the PNM’s 50th Con­ven­tion.

In an email cor­re­spon­dence ad­dressed to An­tho­ny Roberts (the Com­mit­tee’s Chair­man), Pe­ter Tay­lor—at­tor­ney for Mrs Nunez-Tesheira—makes the re­quest, not­ing that it is not “an un­rea­son­able one”.

“I act on be­half of Mrs. Karen Nunez Tesheira, Dr. Ken­neth Butch­er and Bish­op Vic­tor Phillip can­di­dates for the post of Po­lit­i­cal Leader, Chair­man and Elec­tion Of­fi­cer re­spec­tive­ly for the PNM In­ter­nal Elec­tion 2022,” the cor­re­spon­dence read.

It added: “We here­by re­quest the to­tal num­ber of votes cast per con­stituen­cy on No­vem­ber 26th and No­vem­ber 27th, 2022, re­spec­tive­ly. I an­tic­i­pate your favourable and time­ly re­sponse since such a re­quest is by no means an un­rea­son­able one from the Can­di­dates.”

Both Trinidad and To­ba­go have been un­der Ad­verse Weath­er and River­ine Flood­ing alerts since Fri­day, with the YEL­LOW sta­tus of both alerts up­grad­ed to OR­ANGE by Sun­day morn­ing—the sec­ond day of vot­ing in the PNM’s in­ter­nal elec­tions.

Ear­ly re­ports in­di­cate that there was a fair­ly low turnout to the polls on Sat­ur­day, with a slight­ly bet­ter turnout on Sun­day.

Par­ty sources es­ti­mate rough­ly 10,000 mem­bers were able to vote over the two-day ex­er­cise.  The to­tal PNM mem­ber­ship is some 105,894 per­sons.