IT was only a matter of time that the truth would have been revealed as to the main reason for the major split within the hierarchy of the United National Congress (UNC), and it all has to do with a cabal comprising a frivolous four who will do anything in their power to ensure that they acquire a safe seat in the next General Elections at the expense of the bigger picture, which is for the party actually winning the election.

These individuals are called a cabal, because they hold their clandestine meetings prior to each executive meeting, chaired by the financial Piped Piper.

They have the Political Leader and the rest of the puppet executive wait for them while they orchestrate their new plots to discredit the leader, in the hope that they can throw him out or get him to resign, and then obtain a safe UNC seat for themselves.

That is all they speak about prior to and after these meetings.

They then come into the meeting, make senseless recommendations, and the rest of the puppet executive simply nod their head up and down, similar to what Jack Warner did in an idiotic attempt to mock the Political Leader.

The plan involves selecting a controlled screening committee, who will ensure that Vasant Bharat, Wade Mark, Tim Gopeesingh and Chandresh Sharma obtain a safe seat, regardless of whether their presence may affect the chances of the party winning the next General Elections.

This is all they care about; and the reason for this division in the party is nothing more than their concern that Winston Dookeran may not select them to run for one of the safe UNC seats.

I opened the Pandora’s Box at a political meeting last week when I demanded that the Political Leader must have the final say in the selection of candidates, and I expected their fear factor to rush in and start to defend their baseless case that a certain group should select the candidates.

And so said, so done.

VASANT
BHARAT

JACK WARNER

KAMLA PERSAD-
BISSESSAR

WADE MARK

Now, we have heard the Leader of the Opposition make a statement that a cabal-selected screening committee and the National Executive will select the candidates for the upcoming General Elections, and this is what the whole confrontation and division is all about.

It is absolutely amazing that for the last 17 years of the existence of the UNC, the Political Leader had the final say and final endorsement to select the candidates for any election, which is the correct procedure, as is also done by the People’s National Movement (PNM) and any other political party that is not controlled by a cabal who have their own personal and selfish agendas.

It is the fear by the frivolous four and a few others that when the music stops, they would not have a chair to sit on, so they have been doing everything to frustrate Winston Dookeran to step down.

Why? Because of the fear they have that they would not be selected because of the Political Leader’s policy of taking a slate of politicians into the next elections who are politically clean, transparent, have ethics and do not bring any unwanted political baggage which may affect the chances of the party winning the election, inclusive of no tea cups, no dog rice or making accusations in the Upper House on citizens in the country which tarnish their image (and with absolutely no foundation or evidence but is continually done because he has the cloak of Parliamentary privileges to do his dirty work and does nothing more than make the party look bad).

Simply put, there is no way that any right-thinking individual can expect a party to select candidates and the Political Leader does not have the final say whether they are to run for a seat or not, and the reason is simple.

In a General Election, the Political Leader whose party won the most seats is appointed as Prime Minister.

Now what this cabal is trying to say is that they want to “impose” a slate of candidates on the Political Leader, upon which if the party wins the election, then the Prime Minister is now faced with MPs/ministers and worse yet, Members of his Cabinet of which he had no say to select, regardless of whether he saw them fit and capable to run the government alongside him.

A Political Leader and a party aspiring to be in government must have the foresight to know that the Political Leader who becomes Prime Minister must be the one to select the candidates of which he is of the belief that these individuals will make capable Ministers and members of his Cabinet.

Failure to do so, and operating on the clandestine concept by the frivolous four cabal will mean that the Cabinet can then control the Prime Minister, as they can simply tell him, “You did not appoint me here, so don’t tell me what to do,” and we once again may face another case of MP dissidents as seen in 2001, which brought down the Government.

The Political Leader not having the final say in the selection of candidates in the General Election will ensure that exactly what is happening in the UNC Executive will take place in the Cabinet if the UNC wins, with a cabal Cabinet also telling the Prime Minister what colour shirt to wear, who to speak to and what meetings to attend.

And I, for one, can tell you that I would not advise any right-thinking citizen to vote for a party who intends to have a Government in a democratic country run in this manner.