Panday: Jack is still my personal friend

In fact, Panday insisted that he had no hard feelings against any of his colleagues who contested on, or supported the Progressives slate.

"I don’t have hard feelings for the people on the other side (the PNM). Is my own colleagues I would have hard feelings for?" he asked incredulously. "I am a true democrat," he said. Panday said he planned to call a meeting of all the candidates to indicate that "we have finished that process (the internal election) and we start a new process now." However, he said he believed that there was need to heal only where there has been a wound, and "there are no wounds."

"Men must be civilised and accept democratic processes," he said. Panday said he never attacked Warner personally, he merely said that he did not think that he was suitable (for the post of Deputy Political Leader) because he didn’t think that he would be in the country too often due to the demands of his Concacaf work. "If he didn’t have that kind of pressure, I would have put him on my own slate," Panday said.

He said he planned to call the newly elected executive as soon as the recounts were over. He said the recount was simply to find out what the results were. It was not a mechanism for continuing the rivalry by attempting to push people out. Panday said he believed the party would be stronger as a result of the internal polls.