SASCHA WILSON
The two Independent candidates seeking to wrestle control of the Hindustan/St Mary’s electoral district from the PNM and UNC are confident of their victory.
Guardian Media caught up with both candidates Ariel Saunders and Peterson Morales near the Tableland Secondary School.
Saunders voted at Cowen Hamilton Secondary School, today (Monday 25 January 2021).
“We mounted a very successful campaign and I think that today, Trinidad and Tobago will see the results of the work we put in,” Saunders told Guardian Media.
He received no reports of any issues and while there has been a steady flow of voters, the turn out so far has been low.
Voters trickle in at Hindustan/St Mary’s
Monday 25 January 2021
File photo: Michelle Benjamin and Tylon Farell UNC s candidate for Hindustan / St. Mary s spoke to media near the Cowen Hamilton Secondary School, Moruga Road. - Marvin Hamilton
The candidates vying for the Hindustan/St Mary’s seat in the local government by-election on Monday said voting process went well.
PNM candidate Martina Loubon-Le Gendre voted at Tableland Secondary School at about 9 am, saying the process went “extremely smoothly.”
When Newsday visited the area, there was no activity and only one voter near the school.
Loubon-Le Gendre, the lone female candidate, said: “It started off a bit slow, and things are picking up.”