THE governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP) will be hosting its congress to elect a new leadership in May of this year.

This was according to the party’s General Secretary, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, during a press conference at Freedom House on Thursday.

Dr. Jagdeo told reporters that the party’s Central Executive Committee met last weekend and decided that the congress will sit in May.

The PPP had elected Dr. Jagdeo who was the then Leader of the Opposition, as its General-Secretary in 2017. The incumbent Dr. Jagdeo said that he is yet to decide if he will contest for re-election.

“I will decide whether I will contest at that time, but right now I am General Secretary until those elections are held,” he said.