Former MP files petition challenging election results for St. Pauls

Photo Caption: Supervisor of Elections Mr. Elvin Bailey, (far left) E. Robelto Hector, center and Spencer Brand, (far-right)

By: T. Chapman

CHARLESTOWN, Nevis, SKN PULSE – Former MP and candidate of the main opposition Nevis Reformation Party (NRP), Elhansville R. Hector, has filed a petition in the courts challenging his defeat in the December 18 Nevis Island Administration (NIA) elections.

Hector was defeated by Spencer Brand in the St. Paul’s Parish constituency by a margin of 11 votes, as the Concerned Citizens Movement regained control of the Nevis Island Administration by securing four of the five available seats.

Hector and the Nevis Reformation Party are requesting that the court declare the elections void due to a series of irregularities.

Before the election, the NRP successfully petitioned the High Court to reinstate 13 names to the voters’ list in the St. James District.

While Hector and the Nevis Reformation Party are tight lipped about what specific grounds they are challenging the results on, former Leader of the Nevis Reformation Party Hon. Joseph Parry in a News Year’s address stated that ” the party feels that there were a number of irregularities committed both in the electoral Office and elsewhere to warrant his objecting and going to court on this very serious matter”

Parry in that said address solicited the supporters of the NRP and the public as a whole to support the challenge “because it is very important that we have free and fair elections every time.

The respondents in the petition are: Spencer Brand, (CCM Candidate) – First Respondent, Elvin Bailey, (Supervisor of Elections) – Second Respondent, Calvin Fahie, (Registration Officer for the District of St. Paul) – Third Respondent, Attorney General of St. Christopher and Nevis – Fourth Respondent.