00:00Prime Minister Stuart Young says people's right to vote for whoever they want is something to be protected.
00:06He states that he received a call as chairman of the National Security Council for a briefing on voter suppression and intimidation,
00:13which he claims have gotten worse ahead of the April 28th general election.
00:18Those are criminal offenses, intimidating people to try and affect how they vote and to try and prevent them from voting.
00:30Or to tell them how to vote is a criminal offense.
00:34Those are the allegations Young is leveling against the United National Congress.
00:39And you know what they're doing? They're threatening our old senior citizens and telling them not to go out and vote.
00:47And they're doing it all over Trinidad and Tobago.
00:51He played a video on the political platform.
00:54An elderly woman who Young identified as Miss Bernice, someone familiar to MP Roger Monroe,
01:03can be seen amid a group in UNC-branded T-shirts.
01:06The gangsterism and the thug-like behavior that unfortunately those on the other side are engaging in,
01:36and Miss Bernice is not going to be bullied and intimidated by that type of behavior.
01:44He further alleges that the man in the first second of the video is the UNC's candidate for Tocosangra-Grande.
01:51Another allegation by Young is that the UNC is going around with red ink, similar to the electoral ink.
01:58And they are paying or offering to pay people that if you dip your finger in the ink, they will pay you money.
02:05And of course, if you dip your finger in the ink, it means you can't vote.
02:09Prime Minister Young calls on people not to condone the behavior
02:13and urges them not to allow anyone to take away their right to vote.
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