The opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is today scheduled to decide who will be its presidential candidate for the next general elections and former minister Irfaan Ali is seen as the leading contender.

Sources told Stabroek News that the race will be among Ali, seen as the candidate who is closest to party General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo, and two other former ministers, Anil Nandlall and Dr Frank Anthony. The two other contenders, opposition Chief Whip Gail Teixeira and Member of Parliament Vindhya Persaud, are expected to withdraw from the contest.

 

Ahead of a vote by secret ballot by the 35-member PPP Central Committee, sources say that in a three-way race, Ali, the former PPP/C Housing Minister, would emerge as the winner. In a two-way race, the contest should be tighter, with Nandlall, the former PPP/C Attorney General, seen as having the better chance as compared to Anthony, the former PPP/C Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport…..