UNC sets sights on 7

Speaking to Sunday Newsday, Lee said the party also was hoping to make inroads in the San Fernando Borough Corporation; Tunapuna Regional Corporation; San Juan/Laventille Regional Corporation; and Diego Martin Regional Corporation, all of which are controlled by the ruling People’s National Movement.

The UNC currently controls six of the local government bodies.

Saying that the UNC had completed its screening process for candidates, Lee said the party was finalising its agenda of public meetings for the upcoming poll.

“Our public meetings will be targeted to corporations in which we need to spend time. We are hoping to retain our existing corporations and make inroads in the others,” he said.

The Pointe-a-Pierre MP said the UNC’s first major public meeting will be held in Sangre Grande on Friday (November 4) while the party’s attention will shift to the Mayaro/Rio Claro Regional Corporation on November 7.

No venues have been finalised for the meetings.

Lee said the UNC’s final mass rally will be held on November 26, two days before the election. “Although it has not been finalised, we are looking at either the East-West Corridor or San Fernando to host that meeting,” he said.

Lee said the leadership of the party has been meeting with the candidates to ensure that their documents were in order.

“On Monday (tomorrow), all of the candidates will do their first mock dry run with the returning officers to ensure that when Nomination Day comes (November 7), there are no hiccups and everything is in place,” he said.

Lee said the UNC’s machinery was welloiled ahead of the poll.

“We are just ready and waiting for the day to come,” he said.

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