PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC—Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley stated Monday that the Power and Power Industries Minister Stuart Younger will change him as prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago.
Rowley stated that the caucus of legislators aligned to the ruling Folks’s Nationwide Motion (PNM) had “provide you with a state of affairs the place they help Member of Parliament Stuart Younger.
“We’re delighted to announce that the promise of a clean transition goes in accordance with plan, “ Rowley informed reporters.
Final Friday, Rowley introduced that he would resign from workplace by August this yr, earlier than the tip of the time period of his present authorities.
The primary-term incumbent PNM, led by Rowley, gained 22 of the 41 seats within the 2020 basic election to kind a second five-year majority authorities by defeating the opposition United Nationwide Congress (UNC), led by Opposition Chief Kamla Persad Bissessar.
Following the final election victory, Rowley, the nation’s seventh head of presidency, signaled instantly that the get together is in transition, as he not expects to contest one other ballot in Trinidad and Tobago.
Younger was a practising lawyer earlier than being elected to Parliament on September 8, 2015, as a Port-of-Spain North/St Ann’s West member. a
