People’s National Movement

…(1962–81), who founded (1956) the People’s National Movement (PNM) and led his country to independence.

…confusion, but in 1956 the People’s National Movement (PNM) won a victory at the polls and formed the first party-based cabinet government, under the PNM’s founder and leader, Eric Williams. Trinidad and Tobago attained independence in 1962 and became a republic within the Commonwealth in 1976.