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Allegations of election interference are emerging ahead of the upcoming local government polls. Opposition Senator Foster Cummings is accusing the United National Congress of attempting to manipulate electoral boundaries to influence the outcome. But the UNC has previously defended the ongoing municipal boundary review process, which it says is aimed at ensuring fair representation.
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00:00Opposition Senator Foster Cummings is revealing plans by the UNC, which he claims is designed
00:06to steal the local government election.
00:09They plan to steal the local government election.
00:15The UNC plan to steal the local government election.
00:19They realize things going nice.
00:22The PNM have itself organized.
00:25We have a new leader, and we're going from nook and cranny to make sure the people remember
00:32that yellow is the curse.
00:35Cummings made reference to the Committee for the Review of Municipal Boundaries in Trinidad,
00:40which was appointed in November last year.
00:44They set up a committee to go and gerrymander the boundaries.
00:49Yes?
00:49They put on the committee the campaign manager.
00:55They put an ex-fella who does be on social media with all kind of racist kind of comments.
01:00And they put a committee there, pull up a UNC and say go and make recommendations and bring
01:06it back for the cabinet to approve.
01:09He says the committee can't interfere with the boundaries of polling divisions as that
01:14falls under the remit of the Elections and Boundaries Commission.
01:18What they can do, Trinidad and Tobago, is decide that in Tunapuna-Piaco, they will take
01:26out two PNM seats, put it in Sawa Lavantel, or put it in Arima, because I hear they plan
01:36to move about two or three to Arima.
01:38And when they interfere with it like that, come back and say it's for efficiency.
01:44But it's really at the end of the election for them to say, we win nine and you win the
01:51rest.
01:52The former minister shared suspicions on the municipal corporations he believes will be
01:57targeted.
01:58They also plan to interfere with San Fernando.
02:02They want to bring some seats from further south and dump it in the San Fernando Corporation.
02:08They also want to interfere with San Fernando, Tunapuna and Point 14.
02:18That's where they're heading.
02:20And then, I want you to keep your eyes open and watch them, watch them closely because
02:25they like the ball thief, thief, thief.
02:27Oorvashi Tobori, Rukhneraim, TV6 News.
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