Minister of Legal Affairs and Attorney General, Anil Nandlall, has not dismissed the possibility of a fierce legal face-off during or after the 2025 General and Regional Elections.
During his recent “Issues in the News” Programme, Nandlall said, “We don’t know whether we will end up at the CCJ (Caribbean Court of Justice) and how many times we will end up there in relation to these elections,” he said, while reminding his viewers about the legal battles that followed the 2020 elections.
Nandlall said that the former APNU+AFC coalition did all in its power to rig the elections and lamented the party’s many attempts to frustrate the electoral process by mounting frivolous legal actions.
“The 2020 elections and our sojourn, several sojourns, to the courts may still be fresh in your minds. The usual suspects are still around. Those who attempted to rig the elections are very much with us. They are very much contesting these elections.”
He added: “Up to now we have not heard either an admission of guilt or a word of repent or contrition. But what we have heard is complete denial and, worse yet, victimhood. They are the victims. The perpetrators have become the victims of attempted fraud. Well, they are saying that they are the victim of fraud.”
Concluding on a cautionary note, he stated: “We can’t rule out anything. We can’t rule out the possibility of litigation or several litigations, which may or may not travel all its way to the Caribbean Court of Justice.”
“Once the electoral miscreants are around, anything is possible,” he said.
