Anything is possible when it comes to any question of an alliance between his party and the Opposition to unseat the ruling People’s National Movement (PNM) in the next general election, Congress of the People (COP) political leader Winston Dookeran says.

Dookeran made the comment on Sunday, as he and COP deputy political leader Robert Mayers denied their party had anything to do with a claim made by Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday last week that a political party leader, whom he did not identify, told him to quash the UNC and join that person’s party during talks on the unification of political parties opposed to the Government.

’I don’t know where that came from. Certainly did not come from the COP as far as I am aware,’ Mayers said during a press conference at the COP’s Operations Centre in Chaguanas, which was held after the party’s monthly national Council Meeting.

When asked if he would consider getting together with the UNC despite differences he has had with Panday if Prime Minister Patrick Manning called the next general election before it is constitutionally due in 2012, Dookeran said, ’Anything is possible once the national interest is protected.’

Asked how he would react if Panday ever decided to cross over to the COP, Dookeran said, ’That would be a very curious thing to happen in the politics of the country, but we keep saying anything in the national interest, given what is taking place, is possible.’