Political Career

In October 2007, Warner was elected United National Congress Alliance chairman and co-leader, to lead the party into Trinidad and Tobago’s 2007 General Election. They won 15 of 41 seats, and Warner was elected as the Member of Parliament for Chaguanas West. Patrick Manning’s PNM government, which had comfortably won the 2007 election, called an election less than three years into its mandate. Warner’s UNC party formed a coalition with four other parties and won 24 May 2010 elections by a landslide margin of 29 of 41 seats in parliament. Warner was re-elected in Chaguanas West with the highest national vote total. He has described the previous Trinidadian administration as the “most corrupt ever” and has pledged to enforce hanging as a method of execution. Warner has said, “It is inconceivable to have 295 on death row awaiting the hangman…when no one is trying to apply the law.”