Who is popular today?

THE EDITOR: The political leader of the UNC was always going to retain her much envied position, bad weather or not. Rain only stops cricket, not politics. Would the UNC internal election voter turnout been less abysmal had it been dry and 33 degrees in the shade?
So, which political party has acute internal problems? The PNM or the UNC?
The fact that there are no other strong contenders in the UNC has little to do with the indelible popularity of the incumbent. Image is everything. Should Kamla Persad-Bissessar suddenly decide to write her memoirs, what happens to the UNC as a stand-alone party?
It is my unsolicited, unpaid view that low voter turnout cannot/should not be blamed on the stormy weather. It has nothing to do with the PNM government either.
What really happened besides all that rain?
The UNC must get its act together or be pushed into oblivion if all contending third parties get together without it. Is it time for the UNC to look in the political mirror and drink the covid19-laced coffee without milk or sugar?
And what of the PNM? It suits that party when the others fight. All it has to do is reinvent itself. A 33-3 defeat was a walk in the political park, way back when.

LYNETTE JOSEPH

Diego Martin
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