The
main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has announced
plans to start a series of public meetings from this week at the
village level as part of its action plan for the next general
election in Grenada.
A party spokesman told GRENADA TODAY that the first meeting is
due to be held on Thursday night in the St. Andrew South-east
constituency that is held by Insurance Executive, Kenny Fullerton.
He said that all the planned meetings to take place over the next
two months will be held indoors.
According to the official, the NDC will take its indoor platform
to Hermitage on May 17 at a meeting to be held in the St. Patrick's
East Constituency of its Political Leader, Tillman Thomas. He
said that the following day the party would be meeting with people
in St. Paul's which is located in the Constituency of St. George
South-east that is held by Public Utilities Minister, Gregory
Bowen.
He stated that the congress party would be engaged in these village
meetings every Wednesday and Thursday each week until the carnival
season in August. The NDC currently holds seven seats in parliament.
The hierarchy of Congress the party has been under fire in recent
weeks for its lack of high profile political activities around
the island.
Party insiders have said that the Congress executive has taken
a decision to step up its political activities islandwide in an
effort to capture the seat of government from Prime Minister Dr.
Keith Mitchell and his ruling New National Party (NNP) administration.
The official pointed out that some of the key leaders in Congress
have decided to cutback on their professional workloads from June
in an effort to do more direct political work "on the ground".
He said that the action plan calls for the Political Leader along
with General Secretary Peter David and other key executive members
"to be more visible on the ground".
The NDC believes that Prime Minister Mitchell is not thinking
of an early poll but might be more inclined to call fresh elections
sometime around the latter half of next year. Party insiders have
said that Congress would mount serious challenges to the NNP in
fourteen of the fifteen constituencies - the lone exception being
the St. George North-west stronghold of Prime Minister Mitchell.
