{"id":2372,"date":"2010-01-24T08:16:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T12:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=2372"},"modified":"2010-01-24T08:16:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T12:16:58","slug":"unc-election-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=2372","title":{"rendered":"UNC Election Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Basdeo<\/a>
Basdeo Panday, Kamla Persad-Bissessar & Ramesh Maharaj<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

D-Day for UNC<\/a>
\nPolitical mud-slinging. Nightly public meetings. Walkabouts. Picong. Intrigue.<\/p>\n

Election Day<\/a>
\nBy midnight tonight, T&T will know whether United National Congress loyalists, who have stood steadfastly by their leader, Basdeo Panday, through his travails over decades, will finally turn their backs on him, ushering in a sea of change in the political landscape and forcing him to ride out into the political sunset.
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\nNacta: Bas leads, but turnout the key<\/a>
\nThe outcome of the UNC leadership contest is too close to call, with the dual COP members the decisive factor in who wins.<\/p>\n

35,000 eligible to vote in UNC election today<\/a>
\nOropouche MP Roodal Moonilal says there are 35,000 eligible voters on the UNC electors’ list.<\/p>\n

Ramnath: 1,400 COP members on voters’ list<\/a>
\n…but none would be allowed to vote<\/p>\n

Ramesh: I have no skeletons in my cupboard<\/a><\/p>\n

Ramesh on a high<\/a>
\nUNC candidate for political leader, Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj is finishing the three-way race with a flourish, predicting he is in a position to get up to 15,000 votes from the 35,000-strong party electorate.<\/p>\n

Panday urges: Don’t split the vote<\/a>
\nOpposition Leader and Couva North MP Basdeo Panday made an eleventh-hour appeal to supporters Friday night that they not ‘split the vote’ and allow the enemy to win today’s United National Congress internal election for political leader.<\/p>\n

Kamla: I will end caveman politics<\/a><\/p>\n

…Win, lose or draw I’ll serve, says Kamla<\/a><\/p>\n

Kamla: I’m ready to lead<\/a>
\n‘You owe Panday nothing’<\/p>\n

Warner confident of win<\/a>
\nJack Warner is prepared to bow out of politics if he is not elected chairman of the United National Congress (UNC) today.<\/p>\n

Oudit: Election machinery rigged<\/a>
\nUNC members heading to the voting stations today must be vigilant because the election machinery has been rigged.<\/p>\n

Jack ready for legal action<\/a><\/p>\n

Gender, alcohol, race cards in UNC election<\/a><\/p>\n

Police out in full force for UNC elections<\/a>
\nPolice officers will maintain a heavy presence at all polling stations today to ensure that law and order is maintained during voting for the UNC internal elections.<\/p>\n

Shameful game of potty politics<\/a> -Selwyn Ryan<\/p>\n

Not UNC’s finest hour<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

D-Day for UNC Political mud-slinging. Nightly public meetings. Walkabouts. Picong. Intrigue. Election Day By midnight tonight, T&T will know whether United National Congress loyalists, who have stood steadfastly by their leader, Basdeo Panday, through his travails over decades, will finally turn their backs on him, ushering in a sea of change in the political landscape … Continue reading UNC Election Day<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[140,1036,147,144,1015,1037],"class_list":["post-2372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tt","tag-basdeo-panday","tag-cop","tag-jack-warner","tag-kamla-persad-bissessar","tag-politics","tag-unc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2373,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions\/2373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}