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Saturday, May 17, 2025

Rowley says no to opposition's request for foreign election observers

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Akash Samaroo
717 days ago
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Prime Minister De Keith Rowley points to members of the Opposition while speaking during the sitting of Parliament, yesterday.

Prime Minister De Keith Rowley points to members of the Opposition while speaking during the sitting of Parliament, yesterday.

SHIRLEY BAHADUR

Akash Sama­roo

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley will not en­ter­tain the Op­po­si­tion Leader’s re­quest for in­ter­na­tion­al over servers to over­see the up­com­ing Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Elec­tions.

Dur­ing the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ Mon­day Night Re­port, Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar made the call for for­eign over­sight while un­der­scor­ing that her par­ty does not trust the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment with the process.

How­ev­er, while an­swer­ing ques­tions from the au­di­ence dur­ing Break­fast with the Prime Min­is­ter to­day at the Hilton Trinidad and Con­fer­ence Cen­tre, Dr Row­ley re­spond­ed to her re­quest with a re­sound­ing no.

“We are go­ing in­to a Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Elec­tion, we’ve had that over and over and over, and there’s one due in a few weeks. Some of our col­leagues are telling me, "I must in­vite for­eign­ers to come and ob­serve our lo­cal gov­ern­ment elec­tion, no!” the Prime Min­is­ter said to laugh­ter from the crowd which was made up of par­ty stal­warts and mem­bers of the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty.

The Prime Min­is­ter ques­tioned why the Op­po­si­tion Leader be­lieves such an in­ter­ven­tion is nec­es­sary.

“They are free to come if they wish, it’s a free coun­try but why are we sell­ing our­selves short?”

Dr Row­ley said this coun­try has a rep­u­ta­tion for be­ing “su­per­stars” with elec­tions and that is why lo­cals go to oth­er coun­tries to ob­serve their elec­toral process.

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