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Expect the THA election date to be announced sooner rather than later, in about two weeks.

This from Chief Secretary and TPP leader Farley Augustine as he spoke with reporters in Tobago, on Monday. Elizabeth Williams has more in this report.
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00:00you will you will get that yeah more than likely before the mountain or by the earliest
00:04maybe first of december or so but very soon you will have an election date mr augustine said he
00:10has no date in his back pocket if you check my back pockets they're all sewn up and empty i have
00:17no nothing nothing with pockets at all pockets are empty so i have no date in any back pockets right
00:23the the thing is the advantages and disadvantages to both mr augustine said the date for the
00:29upcoming th election is being decided upon in tandem with the upcoming national carnival so we
00:36have a semi-fixed arrangement our law also says that the election must be within two to three months
00:42after the house is resolved now the reason why we didn't land the law doesn't have a definite fixed
00:49date is because you never know what is happening in the society at the time that that date might land
00:55none right now given uh when the house is dissolved we have a national carnival program happening so if
01:04we had a fixed date chances are we could end up with an election on the same day we have a panorama
01:08finals for example and then if that happens then then people in to be able to choose between going
01:13to a panorama financing trend or voting mr augustine spoke at the hampton lowlands multi-purpose facility
01:20where over six hundred and thirty thousand dollars in grants was distributed by the national commission
01:26for self-help limited elizabeth williams tv6 news
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