TODAY’S scheduled selection contest for a successor to replace Tourism Minister Aloun Assamba in South East St Ann has been postponed because the four aspirants failed to agree on the final voters’ list, People’s National Party (PNP) officials confirmed yesterday.

PNP spokesperson Christopher Castriota confirmed the postponement and said no date had been scheduled for new elections.

At a meeting yesterday with the aspirants and their campaign managers, as well as members of the party’s secretariat, “the decision was taken to postpone the selection conference”, Castriota said in a statement.

He said party president Portia Simpson Miller and the party’s executive would be notified, and “a decision taken as to the new date for the selection conference”.

The four candidates vying for selection are environmentalist and businesswoman Bevon Morrison, businesswoman Sheree Brown-McDonald, Lenworth Fulton, executive director of the Jamaica 4H movement and engineer, Dan McDowell.

Last November, Assamba announced that she would not be contesting the seat in the next general elections following protest from some of her constituents against her stewardship of the constituency.

The South East St Ann seat is one of two in the parish for which the PNP is yet to confirm a candidate for the upcoming general elections. The other is South West St Ann where the party’s candidate, Glenville Shaw, resigned the position.