00:00Former Senator and PNM Minister Robert LeHunt explains that in 2023, while the party was winning, the voters were already cut in half.
00:11He tells us where there were usually 2,000 voters, there were 1,000, with some expressing disenchantment and dissatisfaction with the PNM even then.
00:22Now, 2023 went on, 2024 came, the leadership style continued in a particular way. Nobody listened.
00:32And then I think the icing on the cake was the election of the new prime minister and the ignoring of the base and not recognizing the importance that these are the people that you need to come to in the next two or three months.
00:52He adds that even the announcement of the election date didn't augur well.
00:57The opportunity was not even taken to go to the members, let the members see you, explain what you have to do as the prime minister.
01:08So again, it was a feeling, a wrong perception, a perception of how the membership felt.
01:16And therefore, that tells me there was a disjointment. There were certain organs of the party that didn't work.
01:22However, LeHunt notes the election of Mrs. Penelope Beckles-Robinson as opposition leader and says the party is moving in the right direction.
01:32Going forward, this is not going to be a one-woman show, a one-person show.
01:39It will have to require a team.
01:40So I think they're moving swiftly to put a leadership team in place because the leadership has now been reduced from, I think, a seven or eight people to three people.
01:50LeHunt says the PNM is now retooling itself to be in a better position.
01:56Nicole M. Romany, TV6 News.
01:59The PNM is now retooling itself.
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