00:00The United National Congress is making no bones about their contentious relationship with the Election and Boundaries Commission, which has caused General Secretary Peter Kanhai to lodge more than 16 complaints.
00:13The opposition party met with the election observer team from CARICOM, informing them of all the inconsistencies experienced thus far in the electoral process, starting from an invitation from the EBC to send one representative to each of the EBC's main offices to witness the distribution of special ballots.
00:35Our representatives reported to us that the deputy chief election officer, Ms. Lina Sahadeo, she allowed more than one representative from the PNM to witness those proceedings in Port of Spain.
00:50And meanwhile, in San Fernando, seven PNM representatives were allowed to be present at that venue by the assistant chief election officer, Ms. Pamela Oguist.
01:03The attorney says it cannot be one rule for the UNC and another for the PNM.
01:09It cannot be. And this is shameless on the part of the EBC.
01:14They've also called the observer mission's attention to statements made by PNM General Secretary Foster Cummings, which the UNC claims alludes to a collusion with the EBC in the distribution of election results.
01:29The EBC's silence is not only deafening, ladies and gentlemen, it is also curious.
01:36And this is why, ladies and gentlemen and members of the national community, we have said in the UNC, we have said that in no uncertain terms,
01:49the Elections and Boundaries Commission is and has always been an extension of the people's national movement.
01:59And just yesterday, the UNC complained of another irregularity in a marginal constituency.
02:05In San Fernando West, two of our voters may be disenfranchised because, yet again, the returning officer for San Fernando West, in this case, did not initial a special ballot.
02:21And that leads the party to publicly ask Chief Election Officer Fern Narses-Cope to say if she is or ever was a member of the PNM.
02:31Arvashi Tawari, Rupanarayan, TV6 News.
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