WATCH: Comrades feeling ‘religious’ as hundreds gather for PNP rally
Hundreds of People’s National Party (PNP) supporters are now gathering in Cross Roads, St Andrew for the party’s final parish meeting.
The joint Kingston and St Andrew parish meeting was postponed last Sunday due to the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) staging a mass meeting on the same day in Half-Way Tree, during which Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness announced September 3 as the General Election.
A flyer of the PNP’s meeting had set 5:00 pm as the scheduled start time, but the event is yet to get underway.
However, PNP supporters are in a festive mood, dancing to the political party’s songs, gospel tunes, and blowing vuvuzelas as they await the official start of the evening’s proceedings.
In a social media post earlier on Saturday, PNP General Secretary Dr Dayton Campbell said all its caretakers for the two parishes will be given a chance to speak at the rally.
“Our final parish rally is tonight. We decided to give the candidates in Kingston and St Andrew the same opportunity others got to speak to their constituents. See you in Cross Rosds. March we a March,” Campbell wrote on Instagram.
The Opposition PNP has 14 seats to the ruling JLP’s 49 heading into the September polls.
In Kingston and St Andrew, the PNP currently holds six of the 15 constituencies.
– Sugar Ray Thomas
**Video by Arthur Hall**
