JLP in election mode, says Chang

By Clinton McGregor    

 

General Secretary of the governing Jamaica Labour Party Dr. Horace Chang says the party is in election mode.

 

Speaking at a party meeting in Rock River, Clarendon, on Sunday evening, Dr. Chang indicated that the JLP will be ramping up campaigning activities over the coming weeks.

 

"Part of my job is to ensure that over the next few months that the party is ready when the party leader ring the bell and call school, and we'll go into government for the third term. You have to organise yourself, prepare, have the good meetings, have the vibes and everything, but organise to deliver the goods on election day. And we're going to do that....and tell them other side keep themselves quiet and go back to where they were, in opposition," he declared. 

 

The General Election is due by September. 

 

Meanwhile, the JLP General Secretary has challenged the latest RJRGLEANER commissioned Don Anderson poll, which showed the JLP trailing the opposition People's National Party.

 

The poll, conducted late January to mid February, showed a tightening of the race since the September 2024 survey.

 

Some 35.4 per cent of the registered electorate say they would vote for the PNP if the general parliamentary election was called now, compared with 30.7 per cent who say they would vote for the JLP.

 

In the September poll, 39.3 per cent of voters said they would choose the PNP, compared with 30.2 per cent for the JLP.

 

But Dr. Chang said the polls are sending mixed signals to the electorate.

 

He cited another result which showed the PNP and JLP locked in a statistical dead heat in terms of which party the electorate believes would do a better job of running the country for the next five years.

 

In that poll, 34 per cent voted in favour of the JLP as against 32 per cent for the PNP. 

  

"The people of Jamaica said the right party to run the government in the next five years is the Labour Party. Any of you notice that? In other words, Jamaicans are saying, the best person to run the country is Andrew Holness and the Labour party. Yet, they have a poll saying, I going vote for the other side. Jamaicans nuh fool. Jamaicans nuh fool. Supm wrong wid dem numbers there, but I won't go into that," he contended.