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Basdeo Panday threatens UNC with legal action

Former Prime Minister Basdeo Panday says he will mount a legal challenge against the leader of the party he founded, The United National Congress (UNC).

The United National Congress (UNC) internal election is to be held March 24.  Mr. Panday is quoted by the Trinidad Guardian  as saying “If there is any attempt to prevent the election from being free and fair and free from fear, we propose to take them to court….. “They will not steal the elections like they did the last time when they substituted the list and put names of people who ought not to be there and took off the names of people who ought to be on the list”.

In the 2010 elections Kamla Persad-Bissessar, who later became Prime Minister, succeeded Panday as leader of the UNC.  Mr Panday claimed he had been denied access to the membership list. 

Mr Panday is reported as saying he received a letter from the party’s General Secretary, Dave Tancoo, stating that the list  would not be made available to him.

 

 Tancoo was not available the TrinidadGuardian called to verify Panday’s claim.

 

 The former leader and founder of the UNC said  his slate of Generation X candidates were going through the motions to file nomination papers on Sunday in order to contest all 18 seats on the National Executive in the March 24 internal elections. 



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