The Editor, Sir:

The People's National Party is heading for a loss in both upcoming elections with the autocratic way that candidates are being chosen.

I thought that the party to which I belong was a democratic one, but with recent developments in the way that persons who have been selected by the delegates of the party have been shelved and replaced with others have caused a lot of well-thinking PNP supporters to think twice about our support for this administration.

One of the biggest mistakes that I have made in my quest to support this party was to exercise my delegate vote the way I did in the last presidential elections.

One cannot help but pause and think, "What did I do," "Why did I not give the other person a chance?" The gender thing has come back to haunt us.

The party has a group structure which is designed to allow delegates to make decisions for their divisions, constituencies and country. Madam Prime Minister, why do you give instructions for your deputies to violate this structure and make decisions for the people by giving to them representatives that they do not want? Or is it that you are unaware of what they do like the Trafigura donation.

If you do not rethink, rewind and come again, we are going to lose the elections to the JLP and you will not have the opportunity to be elected as Prime Minister because the constituents will stay home and not vote and allow the party to lose. This is not hard to do as some of us PNP have resigned our minds to living under a JLP government.

There are about five safe PNP seats that are in turmoil because persons whom the constituents do not select are being imposed on them. 'The voice of the people is the voice of God'.

The final two lines of Jamaica Arise, the party's theme song say, "Let us all be united to build by His grace, a nobler Jamaica, a loftier race!

Is it that we are no longer noble or lofty? Think on these things.

I am, etc.,

VINNETTE MITCHELL-FORRESTER

Buff Bay, Portland.

vinmitchforr@cwjamaica.com