The Electoral College meets at 1.30 pm today to decide on the next President of Trinidad and Tobago, the United National Congress is hoping that good sense prevails and that the government’s sole nominee Christine Kangaloo is rejected.
Opposition Chief Whip, David Lee, hopes some Government members will not support Kangaloo for President, but vote for the Opposition’s nominee Senior Counsel Israel Khan.
Lee and his party members regard Kangaloo as unsuitable and have questioned her political affiliations and past involvement as acting President in terminating Jwala Rambarran as Central Bank governor.
The vote is via a secret ballot, and Lee hopes that government ministers will recall the Prime Minister’s recent admission of once defying his party in electing Arthur NR Robinson as President in 1997.
Government will have 39 votes, namely 23 from the House and 16 from the Senate, including two presiding officers, while the Opposition will have 25 votes comprised of 19 from the House and six from the Senate, while the Independent Senators have nine votes.
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