PORT OF SPAIN: Jack Warner, disgraced ex-vice-president of FIFA and former head of CONCACAF, will learn shortly whether he has any future even in Trinidad and Tobago politics to which he had retreated from football.

Warner was forced to quit as National Security Minister after a cascade of scandals culminated in accusations of misusing the funds of the central and North American confederation and other football bodies.

He then took it upon himself to resign as MP for Chaguanas West on behalf of the governing United National Congress and seek, in effect, a vote of confidence from his own local electorate.

The path has not been as smooth as Warner had hoped and he has had to confront a candidates’ screening committee which is headed by Kamla Persad-Bissessar, the Prime Minister who had to ask him to resign from her government in the first place.

Warner won the seat in 2010 for the UNC ticket with a record 18,000-plus votes.

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