The National Alliance for Reconstruction (NAR) is hoping to contest at least ten seats in the next election, as a possible coaliton partner of the People’s Partnership.
The political party has already begun campaigning in Point Fortin, La Brea, Fyzabad, and several constituencies in the East-West corridor.
Political leader Dr Carson Charles said discussions were currently in progress to determine which coalition parties would contest the 41 constituencies.
During the opening of a regional office at SS Erin Road, Santa Flora, last Wednesday, Charles said discussions were taking place even though the NAR was not part of the coalition Government.
Insisting that the NAR was not dead even though it had been eight years since it last contested an election, Charles said, “We have begun the campaign to mobilise our supporters [who] are spread throughout the country. We can find our brothers in every political party. Some people even say the Prime Minister is a NAR.” Persad-Bissessar started her political career as a member of the NAR.
He said while the NAR could not fight all 41 constituencies, he believed that an arrangement could be forged within the partnership for a coalition arrangement.
“Discussions are going on and the NAR will negotiate a good arrangement,” he said. Charles said once the PNM was defeated, the NAR would work alongside the PNM and other parties to build a better T&T.
“The PNM is part of T&T too and we will walk alongside them and teach them a few things,” Charles said.
He said, “T&T must return to the era of ‘One Love,’”—the slogan which catupulted the party into office in 1986 with 33 out of 36 seats.
Charles said the PNM had an old colonial vision which was not inclusive. He said once the NAR forged a relationship with the PP it would lobby for the creation of industrial zones alongside the newly built Solomon Hochoy Highway extension to Point Fortin. He said each constituency which the NAR intended to contest had already developed a plan for development.