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Prime Minister Stuart Young is accusing the United National Congress of "intimidation and gansterism," including against senior citizens in the election campaigning.

Young says, voter suppression and intimidation are criminal offences.

He was speaking on a political platform in Sangre Grande on Thursday.

Alicia Boucher has more in this report.
Transcript
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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