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Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley Friday announced that general elections will be held on August 10.<\/strong><\/p>

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Rowley told Parliament that he had advised President Paula Mae Weekes \u201cto dissolve this Parliament at midnight tonight \u2026(and) that Nomination Day will be Friday, July 17.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wish all my colleagues a safe, happy, enjoyable, productive campaign and I look forward to seeing all of them somewhere in Trinidad before the next Parliament,\u201d Rowley told legislators.<\/p>

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In the last general election in 2015, Rowley led the People\u2019s National Movement to a 23-18 victory over the then People\u2019s Partnership administration of Kamla Persad Bissessar.<\/p>

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Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley Friday announced that general elections will be held on August 10. Rowley told Parliament that he had advised President Paula Mae Weekes \u201cto dissolve this Parliament at midnight tonight \u2026(and) that Nomination Day will be Friday, July 17. \u201cI wish all my colleagues a safe, happy, enjoyable, productive campaign and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":112962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regional"],"yoast_head":"\nTRINIDAD: General Elections To Be Held On August 10 - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/trinidad-general-elections-to-be-held-on-august-10\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TRINIDAD: General Elections To Be Held On August 10\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley Friday announced that general elections will be held on August 10. 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