CHARLES KONG SOO
The Movement for Social Justice will contest the upcoming general election in 2020. The party's leader, David Abdulah made the announcement at the Transport Industrial Workers' Union's Hall, Laventille, yesterday.
Abdulah said “The MSJ is organizing for the 2020 elections because when we look around the country, we see that there is no alternative. There's PNM and UNC, but when you look at the leadership of these parties they simply attack one another, they offer no vision, there is no hope.
“Therefore, we're working to offer that alternative having our party congress on November 19, which is a major activity for us.”
He said the party was also having elections for its national executive which occurred every three years. Abdulah said nomination day was on November 10 and elections will be on the morning of the congress on November 19.
He said when they looked around and saw the bacchanal in other parties with respect to elections, the MSJ was devoid of this.
Abdulah said all positions were open and members were free to contest.
He said it was really about building a serious alternative party to what passes for party politics in the country right now.
Abdulah announced Ozzie Warwick as the general secretary and Gregory Fernandez as the chairman of the party.
He said parties had come into government in the last 15 or 20 years with only chapter one written—how to win elections and get into office.