EMOTIONAL MOMENT FOR THE PANDAY FAMILY

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Overcome with emotion. Patriotic Front Leader Mickela Panday who contested the Couva North seat and her mother Oma Panday voted at Esperance Regional Complex in Palmiste.   It is the first time the duo has had to do it without the family's patriarch, Basdeo Panday.   Alicia Boucher has the details.

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00:00It's very emotional. Sorry mum.

00:07Patriotic Front leader Michaela Pandey and her mom, Omar Pandey,

00:11reflected on the man who was a husband, a father, founder of the United National Congress

00:17and late Prime Minister Baste Pandey as they voted.

00:20The politician told the media that her dad, had he been alive, would have been cheering her on.

00:25I think he'll be proud. And he'll say, go get them. Yeah, go get them.

00:32And he'll always say to me, did you do your best? And yes, we did.

00:38And he said, that's good enough. And her dad is going to be really proud of, I'm sure.

00:43Pandey's Patriotic Front fielded 37 candidates in the election, including two in Tobago,

00:49all of whom she told us she was proud of.

00:51She spoke to the media about the electoral process up to when she voted just after 10 a.m.

00:57Great. I don't have any complaints.

00:59I maintain the fact that the process is very archaic.

01:03It needs to modernize.

01:05When you have an outdated system process, the room is left for things to happen.

01:11But I didn't have any problems.

01:12And, you know, I commend the EBC for the job that they're doing.

01:16Pandey also said that there was a high voter turnout for which she stated that she was happy.

01:21Asked about the various sentiments over the time in which she entered the electoral race, she's not fazed by that.

01:27People will always say things and people will always have their opinions.

01:30We did what we did and we did it to the best of our ability.

01:33After casting her vote, she said her intention was to head to the Kuva North constituency, which she contested.

01:40Alessia Boucher, TV6 News.

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