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  • 11 months ago
The UNC is expected to announce five new candidates as screening for those electoral districts took place on Monday. The OWTU will field two candidates under the UNC banner for Pt Fortin and La Brea.

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00:00It's pandemonium at the UNC headquarters in Chaguanas as the party screens for five seats
00:08Tunapuna, Cuva North, Cuva South, Mayaro and Karimi Central.
00:13The MP for Cuva South, Rudian Darsing, has offered himself up again.
00:17My work speaks for itself.
00:19It has always been on the side of the people, what the United National Congress stands for
00:26in terms of people-centred development and improving the quality of life and standard of living
00:33under the leadership of Kamala Hussain.
00:37Newcomer to electoral politics, Nicholas Morris is hoping to get the nod from Mayaro,
00:42a head of the current MP, Rashton Parry.
00:46How does Morris fare compared with unexperienced politicians?
00:50I am coming into politics, I am coming here to screen as 15 years under UNC Executive.
00:56I have served as a Commonwealth Youth Parliamentarian, a Commonwealth Youth Ambassador
01:00and I have served as a Parliamentary Researcher at the Energy and Parliamentary Procedure for over nine years.
01:04So compare me to Rashton Parry 2015 and Morris of 2025,
01:08I think I have more experience compared to Rashton 2015.
01:12But this is not about Rashton Parry today, this is about Mayaro, this is about Trianta Begu.
01:18And the past five years, the past ten years, we have seen our country under attack from the PNM.
01:22A constituent of Kuva North, which is currently held by Ravi Rathiram,
01:27Attorney-at-Law Kyle Tak-Lalsing hopes to bring the seat home for the UNC in the upcoming 2025 general election.
01:35I have no criticism of any brother or sister in the United National Congress.
01:40We are one party going forward.
01:42What would give you a cut above the rest?
01:45I think for my personal self, I have a lot of experience in legislation and constitutional law
01:51and I can make my best contribution in Parliament.
01:53My entire career has been about service, serving people, serving the downtrodden, fighting for rights
01:59and I want to do that in the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago.
02:02For each of the five seats being screened, there are more than one person being screened.
02:07The opposition leader says democracy is alive and well in the Yellow Party.
02:12It indicates that people are very interested in representation.
02:15They are brave enough to put themselves forward, I think it's a good sign.
02:20It is about the democracy that people are willing and able to come forward to represent constituents,
02:27to represent the people of Trinidad and Tobago.
02:29I think it's a very, very good sign.
02:30There are so many people, the interest is tremendous.
02:33Confident of a general election win, Pisar Besasa says aside from MP positions,
02:39there will be many other governance roles to be filled,
02:42even if one is not selected to represent the UNC at the polls.
02:46She disputes a suggestion that she has gone right-winged.
02:50I want to disagree with you, I have not gone right, I am dead centre.
02:56And that is what the country needs, I think the world needs for all of us to be dead centre
03:00so we can look after the interests on the left and on the right
03:03and bring everybody together, united for better development and sustainability.
03:07As it relates to women's reproductive rights and controversial issues,
03:11under her government, a referendum, she says, will pave the way for any legislative decisions.
03:17On those very, very controversial issues, women's rights, on gay issues and so on,
03:22I think those are matters for the population.
03:25Some kind of a referendum consultation that the population must tell us where to go.
03:31We should not impose our own views and our own thoughts and our own policies onto the population.
03:37It must be, it must be coming from the people of Jordan Island.
03:41Between Friday and Monday, more progress has been made as it relates to the Coalition of Interests,
03:47with the Wednesday fielding of two candidates from the OWTU who will contest under the flag of the rising sun.
03:54UNC polls suggest, alongside crime, citizens are concerned about another burning issue.
04:00Well, from our polling, whilst crime scored like number one in almost every sector where we did the polling,
04:07independent polling, health is running close for a second.
04:11So the two major issues from polling is crime and you will not need health care.
04:17Because if you're dead, you can't enjoy anything else.
04:19And the health sector is so bad.
04:21So that is very, very high of what they do, their polling.
04:24Urvashi Tiwari, Rupnirain, TV6 News.
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