Electoral officials in Grenada on Friday confirmed that two opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) members were seeking to have their names removed from the list of candidates to contest the July 8 general election.

Supervisor of Elections, Nadica McIntyre, said that Kent Joseph and David Lambert had submitted letters seeking to have their names withdrawn.

They had been nominated to contest the elections as independent candidates as part of a strategy by the NDC to ensure that the party would be represented in two constituencies where the official candidates might have been forced to withdraw.

Reprinted from radioja.com