Golding seeking re-election in South St. Andrew and first term as PM

 

Leader of the People's National Party, Mark Golding, was nominated on Monday amid a kind of a like atmosphere in the Studio One Boulevard area of the St. Andrew Southern constituency. 

 

Mr. Golding was accompanied by a crowd of jubilant supporters to the nomination centre at St. Luke's Church in Cross Roads. Following his nomination, Mr. Golding, who is the sixth the PNP president, exited the churchyard onto Studio One Boulevard where he was welcomed by a sea of orange-clad supporters.

 

"We have been duly nominated and we are now ready to claim the victory on the third of September," he declared, as he urged supporters not to take anything for granted, but to ensure they go out and vote on election day.  

 

Mr. Golding was elected member of Parliament for St. Andrew Southern in a by-election in 2017 and is running for the first time as MP and president of the PNP. 

 

"I have to try my best to deliver a national victory, not just a constituency victory. So fortunately the constituents, the voters, the residents are very understanding of that and they like to see the way the party has been moving forward so powerfully in recent times. Everybody is very happy about that. So they give me the necessary flexibility so that I can acquit my responsibilities at the national level while also representing them as best I can," he noted.

 

Meanwhile, Mr. Golding commented on the latest RJRGLEANER commissioned Don Anderson poll which showed him making gains in the favourability poll.  He said the polls show the Jamaicans are rallying behind him. 

 

Following his nomination in the St. Andrew South constituency on Monday, a confident Mr. Golding said the Prime Minister should be worried.  

 

"Jamaicans are seeing more of me, especially those that don't follow the politics that closely and so on and may not know much about me, because we're in an election season now, the media is obviously paying a whole lot of attention to what we do, which we like, and more people are seeing who I am and that has been reflected in the increase. And of course on a net favourability rating, when you subtract the unfavourability from the

favourability, I am significantly ahead of Andrew Holness. So that's a problem for him," he asserted.

 

The PNP said its slate of 63 candidates across the country were successfully nominated on Monday.

 

General Secretary Dr. Dayton Campbell noted that while there were challenges in a few constituencies, it was generally a smooth sailing. He said the PNP is now firmly set to contest the upcoming general election and to deliver a government that will put the Jamaican people first.