Comrades dying out in Clarendon Northern, says campaigner
Published:Thursday | August 20, 2020 | 12:08 AM
One People’s National Party (PNP) activist in Clarendon Northern posits that the deaths of known diehard party supporters over the years could be a cause for concern on election day when Comrades will push to return Horace Dalley as the member of parliament.
Speaking with The Gleaner just outside of Kellits recently, the party campaigner said that it was making canvassing in the constituency a tricky affair.
“When our people dead, it hard because that mean enumeration, and sometimes that hard, too. So when you go in one yard, you think you have five votes because you nah remember seh the old lady dead. That throw you off,” she said.
“A nuff Comrades dead in this constituency, and we have to watch it. Me tell dem all the while,” she added.
Dalley, who has served as MP for Clarendon Northern since 1989 with the exception of the 2007-2011 term, acknowledged that the deaths are of concern to him.
“In 2019, over 200 Comrades died,” he told The Gleaner recently. “I have 21 PNP [supporters] pon ice at funeral parlour.”
But the PNP candidate said that he has been active with the enumeration exercise although sometimes, there were scheduling challenges.
He told The Gleaner that there was an extensive drive to get voters on the latest voters’ list, making them eligible to vote in the September 3 general election.