A vote count was abandoned at four o’ cock this morning. And the process will start all over again at two o’clock this afternoon to determine the winner of the elections for an executive of for the Tobago Council of the People’s National Movement.

This angered many people who voted in the party’s internal elections on Sunday, when at eleven o’clock when the results were expected no ballot boxes had arrived at the PNM’s Headquarters at Bacolet Road on the sister isle.

The ballots are from the thirteen polling divisions.

But Alvin Pas­cal, chair­man of the Elec­tions Su­per­vi­so­ry Com­mit­tee, blamed it on the “one man one vote system” which was being exercised for the first time in the internal PNM elections in Tobago for 17 members of the executive.

Four persons are in the running to lead the ruling party’s operations in Tobago. they are Dr Denise Tsoiafatt-An­gus who resigned her post as President Officer of the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) to contest the post, Joel Jack who is currently the  Sec­re­tary for Fi­nance and the Econ­o­my  and Tracey Davidson -Celestine who served as TT’s Ambassador to Costa Rica.THA Chief Sec­re­tary Kelvin Charles is also in the running.

 The team stopped counting ballots after four o’clock this morning, sealed the boxes and announced that the count will resume at two o clock on Monday afternoon.