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The Patriotic Front (colloquially known as "The Patriots") is a political party in Trinidad and Tobago.The party was founded on May 25, 2019 by former UNC member of parliament Mickela Panday, daughter of Basdeo Panday, to contest the 2020 Trinidad and Tobago general election.
Basdeo Panday (pronounced [bɑːsəd̪eːoː pɑːⁿɖeː]; 25 May 1933 – 1 January 2024) was a Trinidadian and Tobagonian statesman, lawyer, politician, trade unionist, economist, and actor who served as the fifth Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago from 1995 to 2001.
Basdeo Panday, a former prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago who was the first person of Indian descent to hold that position, has died. Panday died on Monday surrounded by his family, according ...
The Trinidad Labour Party was a working-class party, but had seen its support decline from 12% of the electorate in 1946 to 5% in 1956. [ citation needed ] Both the PDP and the POPPG had achieved electoral support by appealing to the Indo-Trinidadian and Afro-Trinidadian working classes, but the rise of the PNM split the Afro-Trinidadians away ...
General elections were held in Trinidad and Tobago on 5 November 2007. [1] Nomination day was 15 October. Five parties contested the elections; the ruling People's National Movement, the official opposition United National Congress–Alliance (a coalition of the UNC and six smaller parties), the Congress of the People, the Tobago United Front–Democratic Action Congress (a Tobago-based party ...
Samuel Badree; Denesh Ramdin; Ravi Rampaul; Manny Ramjohn; Sunil Narine; Daren Ganga; Hermat Gangapersad; Robin Singh; Adrian Barath; Inshan Ali; Rayad Emrit; Rangy Nanan
The Workers and Farmers Party was a Marxist political party in Trinidad and Tobago.The party was organised by former Democratic Labour Party leader Stephen Maharaj, C.L.R. James, George Weekes (of the Oilfields Workers Trade Union) and included the then little-known Basdeo Panday among its slate of candidates.
The prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago is the head of the executive branch of government in Trinidad and Tobago.. Following a general election, which takes place every five years, the president appoints as prime minister the person who has the support of a majority in the House of Representatives; this has generally been the leader of the party which won the most seats in the election ...