People's National Movement

{{short description|Political party in Trinidad and Tobago}}

{{about|the People's National Movement nationally|the Tobagonian branch of the People's National Movement|Tobago Council of the People's National Movement}}

{{other uses|People's Movement (disambiguation)|National Movement (disambiguation)}}

{{distinguish|People's National Movement (Poland)}}

{{use dmy dates|date=August 2020}}

{{Infobox political party

| country = Trinidad and Tobago

| seats2_title = House of Representatives

| position = Centre to centre-left

| national =

| international =

| colors = {{colorsample|{{party color|People's National Movement}}}} Red

| symbol = File:People's National Movement Balisier.png
Balisier flower

| website = https://pnmtt.live/

| blank1_title = Devolved or semi-autonomous branches

| blank1 = Tobago Council of the People's National Movement

| seats1_title = Senate

| seats1 = {{Composition bar|16|31|hex={{party color|People's National Movement}}}}

| seats2 = {{Composition bar|22|41|hex={{party color|People's National Movement}}}}

| membership = {{increase}} 105,894{{cite news | url=https://guardian.co.tt/news/slightly-better-sunday-turnout-for-pnm-election-6.2.1578028.9b572e6137 | title=Slightly better Sunday turnout for PNM election|first=Gail|last= Alexander|newspaper=Trinidad & Tobago Guardian }}{{cite news |last1=Clyne |first1=Kalifa Sarah |title=Red and Rowley takes early lead in PNM elections - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday |url=https://newsday.co.tt/2018/09/30/red-and-rowley-takes-early-lead-in-pnm-elections/ |access-date=17 September 2023 |work=newsday.co.tt |date=1 October 2018}}

| seats3_title = Tobago House of Assembly

| seats3 = {{Composition bar|1|15|hex={{party color|Tobago Council of the People's National Movement}}}}

| seats4_title = Regional corporations

| seats4 = {{Composition bar|7|14|hex={{party color|People's National Movement}}}}

| seats5_title = Regional municipalities

| seats5 = {{Composition bar|70|141|hex={{party color|People's National Movement}}}}

| seats6_title = Indirectly elected mayors

| seats6 = {{Composition bar|5|7|hex={{party color|People's National Movement}}}}

| seats7_title = Indirectly elected Aldermen

| seats7 = {{Composition bar|29|56|hex={{party color|People's National Movement}}}}

| ideology = Liberalism
Social liberalism{{cite web |title=Caribbean Elections {{!}} People's National Movement |url=http://www.caribbeanelections.com/knowledge/parties/tt_parties/pnm.asp|website=www.caribbeanelections.com |access-date=18 April 2020 |archive-date=13 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813122435/http://caribbeanelections.com/knowledge/parties/tt_parties/pnm.asp |url-status=live }}
Nationalism{{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of World Political Systems |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-47156-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RyAGDAAAQBAJ&q=PNM%20trinidad%20tobago%20%22centrist%22&pg=PA322 |access-date=31 May 2020 |language=en |archive-date=25 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220225111855/https://books.google.com/books?id=RyAGDAAAQBAJ&q=PNM+trinidad+tobago+%22centrist%22&pg=PA322 |url-status=live }}

| membership_year = 2022

| regional = West Indies Federal Labour Party (1957–1962)

| abbreviation = PNM

| dissolved =

| name = People's National Movement

| colorcode = {{party color|People's National Movement}}

| logo = People's National Movement Official Logo.png

| leader = Keith Rowley

| leader2_title = Deputy Leaders

| leader2_name = Colm Imbert (Legislative Matters)
Nyan Gadsby-Dolly (Policy Matters)
Rohan Sinanan (Party and Election Matters)
Ancil Dennis (Tobago Council Political Leader)

| chairperson = Stuart Young

| general_secretary = Foster Cummings

| leader3_title = Leader in the Senate

| leader3_name = Amery Browne

| leader4_title = Leader in the House of Representatives

| leader4_name = Keith Rowley
(Prime Minister)

| founded = {{start date and age|1956|01|24|df=yes}}

| merger =

| youth_wing = PNM National Youth League

| womens_wing = PNM National Women's League

| wing2_title =

| wing2 =

| founder = Eric Williams

| split =

| merged =

| dissolution =

| headquarters = Balisier House
1 Tranquility Street, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

| newspaper = MAGNUM

| footnotes =

}}

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The People's National Movement (PNM) is the longest-serving and oldest active political party in Trinidad and Tobago. The party has dominated national and local politics for much of Trinidad and Tobago's history, contesting all elections since 1956 serving as the nation's governing party or on four occasions, the main opposition. It is one out of the country's two main political parties.{{Cite book|last=Wagg|first=Stephen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=844-DwAAQBAJ&q=%22People%27s+National+Movement%22+%22main+political+party%22&pg=PT89|title=Cricket: A Political History of the Global Game, 1945-2017: 1945 to 2012|date=2017-11-14|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-55729-6|language=en|access-date=31 December 2020|archive-date=18 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418234433/https://books.google.com/books?id=844-DwAAQBAJ&q=%22People%27s+National+Movement%22+%22main+political+party%22&pg=PT89|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=BTI 2020 Trinidad and Tobago Country Report|url=https://www.bti-project.org/en/reports/country-report-TTO-2020.html|access-date=2020-12-12|website=BTI Blog|language=en|archive-date=23 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123022434/https://www.bti-project.org/en/reports/country-report-TTO-2020.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite book|last1=Gilmore|first1=John T.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1UmcDwAAQBAJ&q=%22pnm%22+%22main+political+party%22&pg=PT217|title=Hodder Education Caribbean History: Freedom and Change|last2=Allen|first2=Beryl|last3=McCallum|first3=Dian|last4=Ramdeen|first4=Romila|last5=Kerr|first5=Ricardo|date=2019-08-26|publisher=Hodder Education|isbn=978-1-5104-3689-3|language=en|access-date=18 April 2021|archive-date=18 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418234425/https://books.google.tt/books?id=1UmcDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT215&ots=nz6TW2pSAu&dq=%22pnm%22+%22main+political+party%22&pg=PT217#v=onepage&q=%22pnm%22%20%22main%20political%20party%22&f=false|url-status=live}} There have been four PNM Prime Ministers and multiple ministries. The party espouses the principles of liberalism{{cite book |editor-last=Lowenthal |editor-first=David |editor-link=David Lowenthal|editor2-last=Comitas |editor2-first=Lambros |title=The Aftermath of Sovereignty: West Indian Perspectives |date=1973 |publisher=Anchor Books |isbn=978-0385043045 |page=134 |url=http://cifas.us/pdf/Fieldwork%20and%20Research/Carribean/BOOKS/Aftermath_Sovereignty.pdf |access-date=3 December 2019 |archive-date=3 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803040955/http://cifas.us/pdf/Fieldwork%20and%20Research/Carribean/BOOKS/Aftermath_Sovereignty.pdf |url-status=live }}{{cite book|last1=Griffith|first1=Ivelaw L.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r3YkGtkglpgC&q=%22people%27s+national+movement%22+%22liberal%22&pg=PA222|title=The quest for security in the Caribbean : problems and promises in subordinate states|year=1993|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|isbn=978-1-56324-089-8|language=en|access-date=30 May 2020|archive-date=18 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418234508/https://books.google.com/books?id=r3YkGtkglpgC&q=%22people%27s+national+movement%22+%22liberal%22&pg=PA222|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Caribbean Elections {{!}} People's National Movement|url=http://www.caribbeanelections.com/knowledge/parties/tt_parties/pnm.asp|website=www.caribbeanelections.com|access-date=18 April 2020|archive-date=13 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813122435/http://caribbeanelections.com/knowledge/parties/tt_parties/pnm.asp|url-status=live}}{{cite book |url=http://cifas.us/pdf/Fieldwork%20and%20Research/Carribean/BOOKS/Aftermath_Sovereignty.pdf |title=The Aftermath of Sovereignty: West Indian Perspectives |date=1973 |publisher=Anchor Books |isbn=978-0385043045 |editor-last=Lowenthal |editor-first=David |editor-link=David Lowenthal |page=134 |access-date=3 December 2019 |editor2-last=Comitas |editor2-first=Lambros |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803040955/http://cifas.us/pdf/Fieldwork%20and%20Research/Carribean/BOOKS/Aftermath_Sovereignty.pdf |archive-date=3 August 2020 |url-status=live}}{{cite book |last1=Griffith |first1=Ivelaw L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r3YkGtkglpgC&q=%22people%27s+national+movement%22+%22liberal%22&pg=PA222 |title=The quest for security in the Caribbean : problems and promises in subordinate states |publisher=M.E. Sharpe |year=1993 |isbn=978-1-56324-089-8 |language=en |access-date=30 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418234508/https://books.google.com/books?id=r3YkGtkglpgC&q=%22people%27s+national+movement%22+%22liberal%22&pg=PA222 |archive-date=18 April 2021 |url-status=live}} and generally sits at the centre{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RyAGDAAAQBAJ&q=people%27s+national+movement+%22center+left%22&pg=PA109|title=Encyclopedia of world political systems|date=15 April 2016|publisher=Sharpe Reference|isbn=978-1-317-47156-1|language=en|access-date=15 January 2020|archive-date=18 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418234429/https://books.google.com/books?id=RyAGDAAAQBAJ&q=people%27s+national+movement+%22center+left%22&pg=PA109|url-status=live}}{{cite book |last1=Derbyshire |first1=J. Denis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RyAGDAAAQBAJ&q=PNM+trinidad+tobago+%22centrist%22&pg=PA322 |title=Encyclopedia of World Political Systems |last2=Derbyshire |first2=Ian |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781317471561 |page=322 |access-date=3 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418234423/https://books.google.com/books?id=RyAGDAAAQBAJ&q=PNM+trinidad+tobago+%22centrist%22&pg=PA322 |archive-date=18 April 2021 |url-status=live}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RyAGDAAAQBAJ&q=people%27s+national+movement+%22center+left%22&pg=PA109 |title=Encyclopedia of world political systems |date=15 April 2016 |publisher=Sharpe Reference |isbn=978-1-317-47156-1 |language=en |access-date=15 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418234422/https://books.google.com/books?id=RyAGDAAAQBAJ&q=people%27s+national+movement+%22center+left%22&pg=PA109 |archive-date=18 April 2021 |url-status=live}} to centre-left{{bulleted list|

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|{{cite book|last1=Skard|first1=Torild|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1N0aBwAAQBAJ&q=%22people%27s+national+movement%22+%22centre%27left%22&pg=PR4|title=Women of Power: Half a Century of Female Presidents and Prime Ministers Worldwide|date=2015|publisher=Policy Press|isbn=978-1-4473-1580-3|page=272|language=en|access-date=18 November 2020|archive-date=18 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418234428/https://books.google.com/books?id=1N0aBwAAQBAJ&q=%22people%27s+national+movement%22+%22centre%27left%22&pg=PR4|url-status=live}}}}{{cite news |title=Labour leader Jacinda Ardern not the only one wanting to 'do this'|first=Claire|last= Trevett |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11899051 |access-date=30 May 2020 |work=The New Zealand Herald |date=4 August 2017 |language=en-NZ |archive-date=2 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191002220855/https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11899051 |url-status=live}} of the political spectrum.

The party was founded in 1956 by Eric Williams, who took inspiration from Norman Manley's democratic socialist centre-left People's National Party in Jamaica.{{cite web|title=The Formative Years of the PNM|date=4 December 2019 |url=https://pnmtt.live/our-party/history/the-formative-years-of-the-pnm/|access-date=12 August 2020|archive-date=23 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023103808/https://pnmtt.live/our-party/history/the-formative-years-of-the-pnm/|url-status=live}}{{Cite book|last=Hall|first=Kenneth|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2VZYAAAAQBAJ&q=%22people%27s+national+movement%22+%22liberalism%22&pg=PT203|title=Caribbean Integration from Crisis to Transformation and Repositioning|date=1 October 2012|publisher=Trafford Publishing|isbn=978-1-4669-4404-6|language=en|access-date=18 November 2020|archive-date=18 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418234428/https://books.google.com/books?id=2VZYAAAAQBAJ&q=%22people%27s+national+movement%22+%22liberalism%22&pg=PT203|url-status=live}} It won the 1956 General Elections and went on to hold power for an unbroken 30 years. After the death of Williams in 1981, George Chambers led the party. The party was defeated in the 1986 General Elections, losing 33–3 to the National Alliance for Reconstruction (NAR). Under the leadership of Patrick Manning, the party returned to power in 1991 following the 1990 attempted coup by the Jamaat al-Muslimeen, but lost power in 1995 to the United National Congress (UNC). The PNM lost again to the UNC in the 2000 General Elections, but a split in the UNC forced new elections in 2001. These elections resulted in an 18–18 tie between the PNM and the UNC, and President Arthur N. R. Robinson appointed Manning as Prime Minister. Manning was unable to elect a Speaker of the House of Representatives, but won an outright majority in new elections held in 2002 and again in 2007, before losing power in 2010. It returned to power in the 2015 general election under Keith Rowley where it had its best result since the 1981 general election, winning 51.7 percent of the popular vote and 23 of the 41 seats. In the 2020 general election, they won the popular vote and a majority in the House of Representatives, winning 22 seats.

The party symbol is the balisier flower (Heliconia bihai) and the Party's political headquarters is known as the "Balisier House" located in Port of Spain. Historically, the PNM has been supported by a majority of Afro-Trinidadians and Tobagonians and the Creole-Mulatto population,{{Cite book|last=Gowricharn|first=Ruben|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J1LzDwAAQBAJ&q=%22pnm%22+%22muslim%22+%22indian%22+%22hindu%22+%22presbyterian%22&pg=PT86|title=Political Integration in Indian Diaspora Societies|date=2020-09-17|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-000-18041-1|language=en}}{{cite web|last=Roopnarine|first=Urvashi Tiwari|title=Politics and religion in San Fernando West|url=http://www.guardian.co.tt/article-6.2.364104.700c7239f8|access-date=2021-07-08|website=www.guardian.co.tt|language=en}} thus it is colloquially called the Black Party, the African Party, or the Creole Party.{{cite book | url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-75634-5 | doi=10.1007/978-3-030-75634-5 | title=A History of Creole Trinidad, 1956-2010 | year=2021 | last1=Ramcharitar | first1=Raymond | isbn=978-3-030-75633-8 | s2cid=250255721 }}{{cite news|date=2 September 2017|title=The legacy of Indian migration to European colonies|newspaper=The Economist|url=https://www.economist.com/news/international/21727896-century-after-india-ended-system-indentured-labour-its-diaspora-building|access-date=2 September 2017|archive-date=1 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170901212224/https://www.economist.com/news/international/21727896-century-after-india-ended-system-indentured-labour-its-diaspora-building|url-status=live}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1KXKAgAAQBAJ&q=pnm+black+party&pg=PA34|title=Size and Survival: The Politics of Security in the Caribbean and the Pacific|isbn=9781135236816|last1=Payne|first1=Anthony|last2=Sutton|first2=Paul|date=4 February 2014|publisher=Routledge |access-date=18 November 2020|archive-date=18 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418234517/https://books.google.com/books?id=1KXKAgAAQBAJ&q=pnm+black+party&pg=PA34|url-status=live}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n7F2DwAAQBAJ&q=pnm+african+party&pg=PA141|title=Choices and Change: Reflections on the Caribbean|isbn=9781886938076|last1=Birdsall|first1=Nancy|last2=Deosaran|first2=Ramesh|last3=Tincani|first3=Amos|last4=Suárez|first4=Elena M.|last5=Bloomfield|first5=Richard J.|last6=Rajapatirana|first6=Sarath|last7=Serbin|first7=Andrés|last8=Henrikson|first8=Alan K.|last9=Skeete|first9=Charles A. T.|last10=Ross-Brewster|first10=Havelock R. H.|last11=Walch|first11=Karen S.|last12=Bloomfield|first12=Steven B.|last13=Meins|first13=Bertus J.|date=January 1996|publisher=Inter-American Development Bank |access-date=18 November 2020|archive-date=7 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210707215857/https://books.google.com/books?id=n7F2DwAAQBAJ&q=pnm+african+party&pg=PA141|url-status=live}} The PNM has its strongest support in cities and urban areas.{{cite web|title=Ruling party holds its ground in local elections|url=http://country.eiu.com/article.aspx?articleid=1154873899&Country=Trinidad%20and%20Tobago&topic=Po_9|access-date=2021-04-05|website=country.eiu.com|archive-date=18 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418234656/https://code.jquery.com/jquery-migrate-1.4.1.min.js|url-status=live}} It was also historically supported by different minorities such as the Chinese, Christian Indians (other than Presbyterian Indians), and Muslims of any ethnicity of the country.{{Cite web |last=Premdas |first=Ralph |date=April 1996 |title=Ethnicity and Elections in The Caribbean: A Radical Realignment of Power in Trinidad and the Threat of Communal Strife |url=https://kellogg.nd.edu/sites/default/files/old_files/documents/224_0.pdf}}Horowitz, Donald L. "Ethnic Groups in Conflict. Chapter 7.

The PNM's signature policies and legislative decisions include independence, writing the Constitution of Trinidad and Tobago, republicanism, the establishment of the Tobago House of Assembly, the Public Transport Service Corporation, the Water Taxi Service, universal preschool, primary and secondary education, universal health care, criminalizing child marriage and decriminalizing cannabis.{{cite web|title=PNM - The People's National Movement|url=https://www.facebook.com/PNMTT/posts/10164217658545472|access-date=2020-12-12|website=www.facebook.com|language=en|archive-date=7 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210707215930/https://www.facebook.com/login/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FPNMTT%2Fposts%2F10164217658545472|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Senate passes marriage bill; Opposition abstains|url=http://www.looptt.com/content/senate-passes-marriage-bill-opposition-abstains|access-date=2020-12-12|website=www.looptt.com|language=en|archive-date=30 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030172342/http://www.looptt.com/content/senate-passes-marriage-bill-opposition-abstains|url-status=live}}{{cite web|date=2016-07-12|title=The new government of Trinidad and Tobago is set to roll out a new national insurance system|url=https://oxfordbusinessgroup.com/overview/road-universal-access-newly-elected-government-set-roll-out-new-national-insurance-system|access-date=2021-07-07|website=Oxford Business Group|language=en|archive-date=25 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125114121/https://oxfordbusinessgroup.com/overview/road-universal-access-newly-elected-government-set-roll-out-new-national-insurance-system|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Caribbean Elections {{!}} People's National Movement|url=http://www.caribbeanelections.com/knowledge/parties/tt_parties/pnm.asp|access-date=2021-07-07|website=www.caribbeanelections.com|archive-date=13 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813122435/http://caribbeanelections.com/knowledge/parties/tt_parties/pnm.asp|url-status=live}} In government since the 2015 general election, the party holds an overall majority of 22 out of 41 Members of Parliament in the House of Representatives and 16 out of 31 members of the Senate. The party has 72 out of the 139 local councillors and is in control of seven of the 14 regional corporations since the 2019 Trinidadian local elections. The party also has one out of 12 assembly members in the Tobago House of Assembly since the December 2021 Tobago House of Assembly elections.

Despite not being a socialist party, the PNM was a member of the democratic socialist West Indies Federal Labour Party in the Federal Parliament of the West Indies Federation from 1957 to 1962. The party includes a semi-autonomous Tobagonian branch known as the Tobago Council of the People's National Movement. As of September 2018, the PNM has 100,000+ registered members.{{cite news |title=PNM ready, not the UNC, for by-elections |url=https://newsday.co.tt/2018/06/10/pnm-ready-not-the-unc-for-by-elections/ |access-date=18 January 2021 |work=Trinidad and Tobago Newsday |date=11 June 2018 |archive-date=27 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127193635/https://newsday.co.tt/2018/06/10/pnm-ready-not-the-unc-for-by-elections/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |title=PNM's .1M members ready for polls battle |url=https://newsday.co.tt/2018/09/18/pnms-1m-members-ready-for-polls-battle/ |access-date=18 January 2021 |work=Trinidad and Tobago Newsday |date=19 September 2018 |archive-date=27 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127220121/https://newsday.co.tt/2018/09/18/pnms-1m-members-ready-for-polls-battle/ |url-status=live }}