section_path: Contesting parties
section_name: Contesting parties
paragraph_text: Contesting parties
  
  The UPM has stated that it will not contest the 2025 elections and will dissolve. The four former members of the UPM formed a new political party, the Caymanian Community Party (TCCP), headed by André Ebanks.
  
  The opposition PPM will contest the elections with Joey Hew as its leader following resignations of Speaker and former Premier Alden McLaughlin and former Deputy Premier Moses Kirkconnell.
  
  The Cayman Islands National Party (CINP) is a new party formed by Dan Scott, a former regional managing partner at Ernst & Young.