ST. GEORGE’S, GRENADA, JULY 6- A senior Democratic People’s Movement (DPM) strategist has flatly denied a claim by Podcaster Jenny Simon that the DPM approached the New National Party (NNP) to broker a candidate withdrawal deal in the Town of St. George — a claim political watchers say raises more questions than it answers.

Speaking on the latest edition of The Bubb Report on Sunday, Simon alleged that DPM representatives met with NNP leadership last week, proposing that the party stand down its candidate in the Town of St. George in exchange for DPM not contesting St. Andrew South East.

“They wanted the NNP not to put up a candidate in the Town of St. George — and I hope Mr. Wickham is listening — so that your Mr. David, who is second in popularity in Grenada, would have a clear run,” declared Simon on The Bubb Report.

“In exchange, DPM would not put up a candidate in St. Andrew South East. The NNP isn’t worried about St. Andrew South East, so the deal fell through”.

According to Simon, the NNP rejected the offer, calculating that it had little to fear in the St. Andrew South East constituency, where party leader Emmalin Pierre is seeking re-election regardless.

The framing of the claim implied that the arrangement was designed to clear a path for DPM Political Leader Peter David — whom Simon described as “second in popularity” nationally — to gain ground in The Town of St. George constituency.

“NNP has seen the polling others have seen, that DPM is its biggest challenge, and so they have sent Jenny as their lead propagandist to create confusion among potential voters,” the DPM strategist said.

“I can assure you that there is absolutely zero appetite for any arrangement. At this stage of our development, NNP is not part of the solution. It is part of the problem”.

Dr. Anthony Bridgeman, a member of DPM’s policy team, also rejected the claim outright when pressed on air, saying he had gone directly to the source to verify it.

“I sent a message to leadership to check, and what I got back was that it is categorically not true,” Bridgeman said. “I’m just reporting what I was told — I reached out to them, they said it isn’t true, and I believe them.”

Pressed twice to back up her claim with specifics, Jenny did not produce documentation or name a source.

When asked by host Dr. Kellon Bubb whether she would retract the statement, she declined, saying she did not expect either party to publicly confirm the claim, regardless of its accuracy.

When asked a second time — directly — whether she’d received confirmation from the NNP executive, she did not elaborate on who from the executive had given it or how it was delivered.

She also declined to name who had told her that DPM’s name had allegedly been invoked in conversations with the opposition, saying only that she does not expose her sources.

The claim has puzzled some political observers given the internal dynamics of the NNP itself.

Dr. Keith Mitchell, the party’s former political leader and current chairman, is widely understood to retain significant influence within the NNP — and has been a vocal opponent of Peter David’s earlier bid to lead the party before David’s move to found DPM.

Given that history, some are questioning why the NNP leadership would enter into a deal explicitly designed to benefit David electorally, when the party’s internal power structure has been shaped in no small part by resistance to David’s rise.