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Gary Griffith has resigned from the party he founded. However Griffith says the National Transformation Alliance will forge on, and adds, he will continue to serve the country in whichever capacity the country sees fit. Rynessa Cutting has more.
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00:00Gary Griffith has officially resigned as the political leader of the National Transformation
00:06Alliance, the party founded in 2022. The NTA contested the local government elections in 2022
00:14as well as the 2025 general election, however failed to secure a seat. Deputy political leader
00:22Norman Dindial has assumed the post of interim political leader.
00:26How I have been trained as a leader is that if it is you're not successful in a mission,
00:33what you should do is to step down to allow others to move forward with the organization.
00:37So I do wish the NTA the best. There have been others who have also resigned primarily because
00:43they believed in me and they joined just because of Gary Griffith. But there are others, there are
00:48many others who would like to step in, fill the bridge and replace those individuals who have
00:53stepped down. The NTA provided the opportunity for that bridge constituency of persons who wanted
00:58a change, who wanted something different to the PNM or the UNC.
01:02The NTA secured just over 5,900 votes in the 2025 general election.
01:09Congratulations to both political parties. They acquired 550,000 out of the 600,000 odd votes.
01:16The sad thing about it is that the 50,000 odd persons who voted outside of the PNM or UNC,
01:20there's no representation for them. That's just about 8% of the voting turnout. Sometimes third
01:25parties get over 20%, like the Congress of the People, the NAR and the ONR, and there's still no
01:31representation. So decades later, we have a flawed process of governance.
01:36So what's next for the former top cop, as he is still commonly referred to?
01:41I will continue to serve my country as my country sees fit. But it seems that I have become a victim
01:48of my own success. People only and solely remember Gary Griffith as being the crime fighter protecting
01:53Trinidad and Tobago. So it seems that all the citizens of Gotham City, they do not want Gary
01:57Griffith to lead the country. They probably just want him to protect the country. I don't know what
02:02the future holds for me, but I will continue to make myself available to serve my country as my
02:06country sees fit. The process for the selection of a police commissioner is currently underway.
02:12Renessa Cutting, TV6 News.
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