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Monday, July 14, 2025

PM, Opposition leader meet on President nominee

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920 days ago
20230106
Leader of the Opposition, Kamla Persad-Bissessar SC MP

Leader of the Opposition, Kamla Persad-Bissessar SC MP

GAIL ALEXAN­DER

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is meet­ing with Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley at 11 am to­day to dis­cuss the is­sue of a Pres­i­dent.

This was con­firmed fol­low­ing UNC's lead­er­ship meet­ing on Thurs­day with the par­ty's Par­lia­men­tary team on the is­sue of the Pres­i­dent.

The Elec­toral Col­lege, com­pris­ing both Hous­es of Par­lia­ment, meets on Jan­u­ary 20 to elect a Pres­i­dent.

The term of in­cum­bent Pres­i­dent Paula-Mae Weekes ends in March. Weekes is cur­rent­ly over­seas on va­ca­tion, due back next Thurs­day. Nom­i­na­tions for a can­di­date are to be sub­mit­ted by next Fri­day for the lat­est.

Par­ty of­fi­cials con­firmed that no nom­i­nee was cho­sen by the UNC at Thurs­day's meet­ing but the meet­ing with Row­ley was an­nounced. This is at the Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar is at­tend­ing the meet­ing with "an open mind".

In 2018 the UNC had sup­port­ed the nom­i­na­tion of Weekes.

UNC of­fi­cials not­ed that on Thurs­day and this morn­ing.

Some at­ten­dees at the UNC's Thurs­day meet­ing had dis­cussed spec­u­la­tion about the pos­si­bil­i­ty of Sen­ate Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo for the post and con­tin­ued their po­si­tion against that choice due to her sta­tus as a po­lit­i­cal­ly ac­tive per­son.

UNC deputy leader Roodal Mooni­lal re­cent­ly aired UNC's po­si­tion on that - and against Row­ley for Pres­i­dent.

Row­ley sub­se­quent­ly said he wasn't seek­ing the post and it would not be an ac­tive politi­cian and al­so "may not" be a re­tired judge or mem­ber of the le­gal fra­ter­ni­ty ei­ther.

But spec­u­la­tion on Kan­ga­loo has con­tin­ued.

Last night, Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials said an ac­tive politi­cian was catered for in Sec­tion 21 of the Con­sti­tu­tion.

They not­ed for­mer head of state ANR Robin­son and the UNC's nom­i­na­tion of for­mer Sen­ate Pres­i­dent Ganace Ram­di­al.

But most re­cent­ly the name of for­mer Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions, judge and In­ter­na­tion­al Crim­i­nal Court judge (2014-2021) Ge­of­frey Hen­der­son was al­so be­ing tipped.

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