ST ANDREW, Jamaica — Maintaining that St Andrew East Rural is a “swing-seat” People’s National Party (PNP) candidate for the area, Patrick Peterkin, says his party will not be complacent.

“We know that we don’t win an election until the last goes into the ballot, so we are not going to get complacent and we are not going to start to brag and boast…it’s better to work hard and win by 2,000 than to be complacent and lose by one or two,” said Peterkin who was speaking in the constituency on Friday.

The caretaker, who will face two-time Member of Parliament Juliet Holness of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in the September 3 general elections, urged residents in the area to put their X beside the head on election day.

“We don’t forget. We have been walking the constituency, we know what the issues are, we know what the people need, we know that you have been neglected and we are here to work,”he said, adding “There’s only one way that I can do the work for you and that is with the votes, so tell your family, tell your friends that Peterkin is here to work for all of us,” he said.

Meanwhile, PNP President Mark Golding said he looked forward to working with Peterkin to resolve some of the issues faced by residents in the constituency.

Highlighting issues with gullies running through the community, poor infrastructure and the need for official land titles, Golding said, “This election is not a…joke business…Dem don’t believe in democracy or certainly not the practice of democracy they might talk it but they don’t walk it.”

He also urged residents to read the PNP manifesto “Jamaica Love”.