NEGRIL, Westmoreland – The Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) will set a date at next month’s National Executive Council (NEC) meeting for the holding of a special delegates conference to elect a president and four vice-presidents.

At a meeting of the party’s NEC held in Negril recently, the first since its loss to the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in the September 2007 general elections, it was recommended that the party’s six regional conferences be held on October 28 and that all constituency conferences should be held before November 19.

“.This means that when we go to the next National Executive Council meeting, which will be held on the 25th of November, we will be in a constitutional position to appoint the date for the party’s special conference to deal with other party matters, as well as to elect the president and four- vice presidents of the party,” said PNP general secretary, Donald Buchanan.

The NEC is the party’s highest decision-making body outside of the PNP’s annual conference.

It is customary for the party to fill key posts at the first meeting of the NEC after its annual conference, but the recent election campaign prevented the holdings of annual meetings of the six regional conferences and some constituency conferences.

The PNP’s annual conference was held on Sunday, September 16.