Selwyn Ryan: Panday won the race ... to the bottom

"The election of Mrs Kamla Persad- Bissessar to the post of Political Leader of the UNC has dynamited the politics of the country.

" The fact that the margin of victory was wide and comprehensive added to the importance of the event. Had the result been closer and more equivocal, certain people might have been tempted to claim that they ’wuz robbed’ as they have often done in the past.

"The polls were correct when they asserted that Messrs Panday and Manning were in a ’race to the bottom.’ Mr Panday got there first."
Selwyn Ryan
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