EXECUTIVE member of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Joseph Harmon, has signaled his interest to be the chairman of the party by announcing his candidature for the position.

“I bring years of experience as a member of the party and I am also someone with experience of managing large organisations,” said Harmon, during an interview with this publication on Monday.

If elected at the PNCR Biennial Delegates’ Congress, he intends to work closely with and support the vision of the leader of the party. The chairman is constitutionally a person who chairs the party’s congress, general council and other meetings. He or she also carries out the functions assigned to them by the leader of the party, he said.

“What the chairman and all other executive members do is to work with the vision of the leader and I am proud to work with President David Granger who is the leader of the party; I am happy to work with him and I continue to pledge support for him as leader,” said Harmon, who is also Minister of State.

The PNCR executive member asserted that the party is democratic, so members are allowed to offer themselves up as candidates for certain positions in the central executive of the party at the congress. “It is my interest in putting myself up as a candidate for the chairmanship of the party; every member can aspire to the highest office in our party,” he said.

Aside from Harmon, Attorney General, Basil Williams, who is the current chairman of the PNCR, will be looking for reelection at the congress. Leader of the Alliance for Change (AFC), Raphael Trotman has supported Harmon’s decision to run for chairman of the PNCR. In his personal view, Trotman said he believes that Harmon would make a good chairman because he has a “leader’s heart”. “Although I have my view, the delegates of the party will elect who they wish to be chairman but I believe he means well,” he said.

Trotman was however confident that Harmon would use his years of experience as a lawyer, military officer and recent experience as senior minister to serve the PNCR well.