ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Antigua and Barbuda’s Supervisor of Elections, Ian. S. Hughes will lead a Caribbean Group (CARICOM) Observer mission to Trinidad and Tobago’s April 28 normal elections.
The Antigua and Barbuda Electoral Fee (ABEC) confirmed that Hughes was named CARICOM’s Chief of Mission. Hughes will present management and steerage to the CARICOM Election Observer Mission inside the context of the mission’s Phrases of Reference.
Antigua and Barbuda’s Supervisor of Elections, Ian. S. Hughes
The CARICOM delegation will observe the ultimate preparations earlier than the elections, maintain discussions with the assorted stakeholders on the progress in direction of the method, observe the electoral course of on the day of elections, and acquire qualitative observations concerning preparations, the comportment of the electoral officers and political actors, and the general political surroundings.
Within the post-election section, he’ll lead the CARICOM crew in observing and assessing the election end result and its quick affect on the social and political surroundings.
On the finish of the mission, Hughes will challenge an official assertion on behalf of CARICOM on the method and put together and submit the Report of the CARICOM Remark Mission to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago Nationwide and Parliamentary Elections.
This isn’t the primary time that Hughes has served on a CARICOM Observer Mission. He was appointed as CARICOM’s Chief of Mission to the 2021 elections within the Bahamas and likewise served as a member of the Observer crew through the Parliamentary Elections in Turks and Caicos in 2021, Belize and Suriname in 2020, and Haiti in 2015.
The Commonwealth and the US-based Carter Middle are additionally anticipated to ship observer groups to Trinidad and Tobago’s polls. There, 161 candidates representing 17 political events are vying for management of the 41-member Parliament.
Nevertheless, observers say the elections will likely be contested between the ruling Individuals’s Nationwide Motion (PNM) and a coalition led by the principle opposition United Nationwide Congress (UNC).
