# National Team Unity

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{{Infobox political party
| name = National Team Unity
| logo = National Team Unity Logo.png
| abbreviation = NTU
| colorcode = #018ff7
| leader = [Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj](/source/Ramesh_Lawrence_Maharaj)
| foundation = 2001<ref name="Mills2002" />
| dissolved    = {{approx|2003}}<ref name="Ali2003" />
| split = [United National Congress](/source/United_National_Congress)<ref name="Ali2003" />
| merger = 
|successor=
|colors = {{color box|#e10402}}[Red](/source/Red) {{color box|#f7f803}}[Yellow](/source/Yellow) {{color box|#018ff7}}[Blue](/source/Blue)
}}
{{Politics of Trinidad and Tobago}}
'''National Team Unity''' ('''NTU''') was a [political party](/source/political_party) in [Trinidad and Tobago](/source/Trinidad_and_Tobago) led by [Human Rights](/source/Human_Rights) lawyer and former [Attorney General](/source/Attorney_General) [Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj](/source/Ramesh_Maharaj).<ref name="Ali2003">{{cite news |last1=Ali |first1=Azard |title=Ramesh to return with new political party |url=https://archives.newsday.co.tt/2003/09/25/ramesh-to-return-with-new-political-party/ |access-date=12 December 2024 |work=Trinidad and Tobago Newsday |date=25 September 2003|via=Trinidad and Tobago Newsday Archives}}</ref> 
 
Founded as ''Team Unity'', to contest party elections within the [United National Congress](/source/United_National_Congress) in 2001, the slate of candidates was led by Maharaj.<ref name="Mills2002">{{cite news |last1=Mills |first1=Suzanne |title=The quest for a Panday successor |url=http://www.trinidadandtobagonews.com/forum/webbbs_config.pl?md=read;id=882 |access-date=12 December 2024 |work=Newsday |date=17 November 2002|via=Trinidad and Tobago News Bulletin Board}}</ref>  Team Unity won 21 of 24 contested executive posts including the Deputy Leadership (won by Maharaj).
 
Later that year a rift with UNC leader Basdeo Panday led Maharaj, together with [Oropouche](/source/Oropouche_(constituency)) [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament) [Trevor Sudama](/source/Trevor_Sudama) and [Naparima](/source/Naparima_(ward)) MP [Ralph Maraj](/source/Ralph_Maraj), to leave the party.  This caused the UNC to lose its parliamentary majority, forcing national elections.<ref name="Mills2002" />
 
Renaming itself National Team Unity, the party contested the [2001 general elections](/source/2001_Trinidad_and_Tobago_general_election), winning 2.5% of the vote but no seats.  It did not contest the [2002 general elections](/source/2002_Trinidad_and_Tobago_general_election).

By 2003 the NTU was described as "apparently defunct", with Maharaj looking to start a new political vehicle.<ref name="Ali2003" /> He would later rejoin the United National Congress.

==References==
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{{Trinidad and Tobago political parties}}

Category:Political parties in Trinidad and Tobago

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