Development: Preliminary results indicate that the main opposition People’s National Movement (PNM) led by Keith Rowley won the 7 September general election in Trinidad & Tobago, defeating the coalition People’s Partnership (PP) of Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar, in office since 2010. Significance: While final pre-electoral surveys had suggested an increasingly tight race, potentially to be determined by a single seat in the 41-seat House of Representatives, preliminary figures suggest that the PNM has won 22 or 23 seats, with the remainder going to the PP (comprising the United National Congress [UNC], the Congress of the People [COP], the Tobago…