Former MP for Barataria/San Juan and former Minister of Health Dr. Fuad Khan is giving his views on the UNC's upcoming leadership election.
Reacting to Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar's challenge for anyone wanting to contest her to "come and take it," Dr. Khan called the statement political gun talk.
00:00Dr. Khan sees Prime Minister Kamala Passat-Bissassa's bold challenge as a strategic move to shake up the party's membership.
00:09He acknowledges that Mrs. Passat-Bissassa has already won the leadership election in the eyes of many,
00:15with no serious contenders expected to challenge you.
00:18However, he adds that the internal election cannot be considered truly free and fair under the current circumstances.
00:26We need free and fair elections, but now it's not going to be a good time because nobody's going to go up.
00:32People have learned their lesson that unless the political leader wants a certain slate, you're not going to win.
00:39Last person was Rushton Parry, Anita Haynes and that group, and myself included.
00:44Before that, I just went to see how the system works, and I saw how it works.
00:49And I always said that political gun talk, you're in your office, you're Prime Minister, you're rallying your troops, so be it.
00:57Dr. Khan also weighs in on the recent controversy surrounding the cancellation of CPEP contracts.
01:05Some people, as they say, recently made $7 million in seven years.
01:08Who don't want that?
01:09So the people who supported the UNC or the opposition party wants to get it when they come in.
01:16And the party has to deliver.
01:18It happened also in 2015 when we left.
01:22So that is something that will never change.
01:26It's people want to get their pound of flesh, and the party has to give it to them.
01:31But how you do it, you have to make it look legal.
01:34The former MP also shares his view on the government's recent criticisms of the independent bench.
01:41So once you start attacking them, you destabilize that aspect of it.
01:45You destabilize the constitution of independence and say they're not independent, they're pre-NM.
01:51So you know, in two years' time, when you put your president there, you could put your independent senators to get your constitutional majority to change the constitution to go your way.
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