Rowley pleased with poll findings

While the PNM is dismissing the latest Ryan poll Keith Rowley is pleased that a majority of the population still holds him in "good standing" despite a "Herculean effort" to tarnish his character.

In an interview with the Trinidad Express the former cabinet minister said, "I am comforted."

He was commenting on the new Ryan poll that suggested that he is way ahead of Prime Minister Patrick Manning as "the most widely supported Afro-Trinidadian political figure" in Trinidad and Tobago.

The Express asked him if the poll results would encourage him to challenge Manning for the leadership of the People's National Movement as he did in 1997. He didn't answer the question directly.

"The pollsters will do their work and I will do my work as a Member of Parliament which is what I am doing now," he told the paper.

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