Press Release

October 13, 2013 Ramadhar to represent PP in Debate The leadership of the People's Partnership has decided that Congress of the People (COP) leader The Honourable Prakash Ramadhar will represent the partnership in the political leaders' debate on Tuesday on national television. The Partnership took this decision in order to give a voice to the COP and its leader since the Trinidad and Tobago Debates Commission, which has organised the debate, refused to allow COP to participate in the debates while allowing the Movement for Social Justice to be a participant. The partnership felt that this is unfair to the electorate, especially since COP is a legitimate political party with six representatives in Parliament and its members are a part of the governing People's Partnership coalition. The People's Partnership is a democratic institution in which each member is equal. In this context we felt that it was the proper thing to do to allow Mr Ramadhar to represent the Partnership in Tuesday's debate since UNC Deputy Political Leader Dr Suruj Rambachan represented the Partnership in the first debate last Thursday. We are confident that Mr Ramadhar, as a senior member of cabinet and a leader of one of the parties in our coalition, would professionally present the Partnership's position during the debate.

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