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Global
Correspondent Report From Trinidad
Elections
Day 2007 Trinidad and Tobago
1946—Election:
the first with universal adult suffrage, in Trinidad and
Tobago
2007—General Election Monday 5th November
The people of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago went to the
polls on Monday 5th November to elect the government they
think should manage their affairs for the next five years.
The contesting parties were the incumbent PNM, the UNCA, the
COP, the DAC, and the DNA. Their's was a majority win as the
PNM returned to the seat of government having won 26 seats.
The UNCA will form the opposition with a winning of 15 seats
in Parliment.
The Prime Minister, and leader of the People's National
Movement, the Honorable Patrick Manning, chose to be sworn in
as Prime Minister, not at President's
House, the usual venue, but rather in full live view of the
people in the famous Woodford Square on Wednesday 7th
November.
ABCEDARIAN*
Polling Day
2007
As billowy
clouds dissolve,
Egrets from gusty heights installed,
Justly kittled, lend
Monday’s nexus of polling queues,
Regal sagacity;
Treetops undulate,
Vying with xiphoid yielding zephyrs.
*Abcedarian: a
poem where the sequenced lines or words in a poem begin with
successive letters of the alphabet.
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