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Weekly Report - 27 May 2010 (WR-10-21)
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: Opposition sweeps to power
The opposition won a landslide victory in general elections on 24
May. Kamla Persad-Bissessar was sworn in as Trinidad & Tobago's first female
Prime Minister a day later at the head of the People's Partnership, a
multi-ethnic coalition. The defeated Prime Minister, Patrick Manning, of the
People's National Movement (PNM), accepted full responsibility for his political
miscalculation in calling a snap election only halfway through his term in the
hope of exploiting opposition disunity and averting a debate and no-confidence
vote in parliament over corruption. In the event, Persad-Bissessar's United
National Congress (UNC) managed to forge the largest coalition movement in the
twin-island state's history, and evidence for the corruption merely came out on
the hustings.
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