ST.GEORGE’S, GRENADA, October 17th- If pollster Dr. Justine Pierre’s predictions prove accurate, Grenada could witness a political scenario with D’ Movement leader Peter David emerging as the country’s next Prime Minister through a coalition government.

In its editorial today, THE NEW TODAY newspaper suggests that Dr. Pierre’s latest polling data points to a hung parliament following the next general elections, constitutionally due in 2027.

“If general elections are held now… no single party will win an outright victory but D’ Movement will hold the balance of power with two seats – Town of St George and St Patrick East,” the editorial noted.

The poll forecasts a shift from the current political landscape, predicting the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) will secure only six seats—down from its current 10—while the opposition New National Party (NNP) would capture seven, and D’ Movement two.

According to THE NEW TODAY’s analysis, this arithmetic would place David “in the driving seat” for coalition negotiations.

However, the pro-NDC newspaper suggests Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell would be unlikely to accept a subordinate role.

“THE NEW TODAY cannot see Dickon Mitchell being prepared to be involved in a government in which David replaces him as the Prime Minister,” the editorial stated.

Instead, the paper argues the NNP would “most likely get involved in an accommodation arrangement with Peter David” because veteran leader Keith Mitchell “understands political interest more than anyone in Congress.”

The editorial recalls Grenada’s 1990 coalition negotiations when Keith Mitchell, having won just two seats, engaged in behind-the-scenes discussions with Ben Jones’s TNP and Eric Gairy’s GULP to form a government and exclude the NDC.

Those efforts ultimately failed when Governor General Sir Paul Scoon invited Nicholas Brathwaite to form the government.

Accompanying the editorial, THE NEW TODAY’s front-page story highlights Dr. Pierre’s prediction that four senior NDC ministers—Foreign Minister Joseph Andall, Finance Minister Dennis Cornwall, and Ministers Tevin Andrew and Lennox Andrew—will lose their seats.

The newspaper, led by journalist George Worme and widely viewed as NDC-friendly, appears to be issuing a warning to the Mitchell administration.

“The ball is in the hands of Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell to look closely at the current political situation…and take the necessary steps to put Congress back on the right trajectory,” the editorial urged