2025 GENERAL ELECTION IN T&T IS APRIL 28TH

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April 28th.  That's when voters in this country will have their say in determining who will lead the next Government.  The Election Day announcement was made by the new Prime Minister via a statement from the Office of the Prime Minister a day after he was sworn into office .  Juhel Browne reports.

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00:00Just one day after Port of Spain North, St Anne's West MP Stuart Young took his oath

00:05of office as the new head of the government of Trinidad and Tobago. He

00:10calls a snap general election. The office of the Prime Minister said in a

00:14statement on Tuesday afternoon that Prime Minister Young advised the

00:17President Christine Kangaloo to dissolve Parliament with effect from midnight on

00:22Tuesday 18th of March 2025 in accordance with section 68 of the Constitution. The

00:29OPM also said that the Prime Minister has also advised the President that in

00:33accordance with section 33 of the Representation of the People Act rates

00:37of election for the 2025 general election are to be issued on the 18th

00:43day of March 2025 and are to fix Friday 4th of April 2025 as nomination day. The

00:51OPM then announced that Monday 28th of April 2025 as polling day, the day of the

00:58general election. In an immediate response, opposition leader Kamala

01:02Prasad Mrs. said in a statement that Prime Minister Young, quote, hurriedly

01:06called the date to preempt the UNC legal action that was coming regarding, unquote,

01:12what she insists is his illegitimate and illegal anointing as Prime Minister. The

01:18opposition leader said Prime Minister Young's, quote, appointment would have

01:22been shown to be unconstitutional in the courts and he would then be forced to

01:26face a PNM internal election before the general election.

01:30Penny would have decimated him in any internal election and the PNM financiers

01:35backed coup would have been put down, end quote. An apparent reference to Planning

01:41Minister for the LP Beckels, the MP for Arima. The 2020 general election occurred

01:46during the COVID-19 pandemic when social distancing and other COVID prevention

01:51restrictions had been in place. According to the Elections and Boundaries

01:54Commission, the PNM won in 22 constituencies and obtained the popular

01:58vote with 322,180 votes, 49.05% of the votes cast. The EBC also noted that the

02:08UNC won 19 constituencies and received a total of 309,654 votes, 47.14% of the

02:20valid votes cast in the 2020 general election. Opposition leader Bassan

02:24Bissessa said the UNC is ready for the 2025 general election. The PEP has joined

02:30with the UNC and the COP has said it is holding talks with Mrs. Bassan

02:35Bissessa. The NTA, HOPE and the CRN have formed an alliance for the general

02:40election. Parties set to contest the two constituencies in Tamago include the

02:44TPP, the PDP and the APP. The PNM has already selected all of its candidates

02:51to contest the 41 constituencies in Trinidad and Tamago.

02:56Jewel Brown, TV6 News.

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