The Progressive Labour Party hopes to put the Opposition into "irreversible obscurity" during the next election.

Though Premier Dr. Ewart Brown remained tightlipped about when the forthcoming election would be called - at one point joking that he wished the Premier would just call it already - he made one thing clear, the PLP were in it to win it.

Speaking to people in constituency 10, 11 and 12 he said his party planned to win 30 seats - 83 percent of the those available. The PLP currently hold 21 seats. He said: "This is an exciting time in our political development. When you have 75 people expressing interest in representing the PLP in parliament that is exactly what it is, an exciting time."

Dr. Brown said with only 36 constituencies 39 people were bound to be disappointed by not being chose, but added that the process was an important one.

He said: "We have introduced a process where everyone who has expressed an interest can be involved in the process. "They will have an opportunity to be interviewed, polls be done to see how they are doing against another person and meet their branch."

But with all the talk of election, Dr. Brown was quick to keep the mood light and not reveal when it could be expected: "We haven't introduced our candidates or even said if there is going to be an election soon."

He added: "I can't stand here and tell you I am working totalling 100 percent towards the election because we have a country to run. Unlike the UBP which does not have that burden. We plan on keeping it that way."

He pointed to the fact that since the PLP came to power they taken the country from strength to strength and disproved the UBP's 1998 campaign rhetoric - that a PLP Government would mean the demise of international business and tourism.He said: "We have more international businesses registered here than we did in 1998and we have more tourists coming than before and all of that was done under the PLP."