NDP PRESENTS ELECTION 2023 CANDIDATES

NDP PRESENTS ELECTION 2023 CANDIDATES
Only Five District Candidates
At-Large Slate Complete With Allen O’Neal

The National Democratic Party (NDP) has launched a slate of nine District and At-Large candidates to contest in the General Election set for April 24.

The main opposition party has 26 days to put forward candidates for Districts 1, 2, 5 and 7. April 13th is Nomination Day territory-wide.

The NDP this evening launched its Chairman Honourable Marlon A. Penn as District 8 incumbent and the four Territorial At-Large candidates Lorna Smith – wife of former Premier Orlando Smith – former Legislator Dr. Kedrick Pickering, Renard Estridge and Allen Wheatley.

Aaron Parillon, Sandy Harrigan-Underhill, former Legislator and NDP Leader Myron Walwyn, and first-time candidate Coy Levons are contesting in Districts 3,4,6 and 9, respectively.

The NDP lost the 2019 elections to the Virgin Islands Party, winning three of 13 seats in the House of Assembly – Honourable Penn, Honourable Mark Vanterpool in District 4 and Honourable Alvera Maduro-Caines.

Shortly after their defeat at the polls, Maduro-Caines resigned and joined the VIP, while several members including Walwyn and Pickering left the party.

The latter two returned in 2023 in a move to save the NDP, while seeking a coalition with the Progressive Virgin Islands Movement (PVIM) formed in 2018 by former NDP member Ronnie Skelton.

But the NDP is confident that the party will put forward a sound list of candidates before Nomination Day in the territory.