Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is la­belling the po­si­tion of the EBC (Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion) to ques­tion its staff about their vote as “Ab­solute­ly un­ac­cept­able.”

Dr Row­ley made the post to his Face­book page this morn­ing in re­spond to the rev­e­la­tion from the EBC chair­man, Mark Ramk­er­rysingh, at an elec­tion cov­er­age work­shop host­ed by the TTP­BA (Trinidad and To­ba­go Pub­lish­ers and Broad­cast­er As­so­ci­a­tion) yes­ter­day. 

The Prime Min­is­ter said the vote in this coun­try is se­cret and no per­son in pub­lic em­ploy­ment must be forced to re­veal how he or she vot­ed or in­tend to vote.

“Re­turn­ing of­fi­cers are not to com­ply with this strange and dis­turb­ing de­vel­op­ment at the EBC.”

The PNM, which has not been con­sult­ed on this mat­ter, is res­olute­ly op­posed to this un­nec­es­sary and pos­si­bly il­le­gal ac­tion.”

“ Where did this come from,” he asked.