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paragraph_text: Stuart Richard Young (born 9 February 1975) is a Trinidad and Tobago attorney and politician who served as the eighth prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago between March and May 2025. As member of the People's National Movement (PNM), he has been a member of parliament (MP) in the House of Representatives for Port-of-Spain North/St. Ann's West since 2015.
  
  He was the Minister of Energy and Energy Industries and Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister. On 6 January 2025, it was announced Young would be the presumptive nominee to succeed as prime minister in August 2025 when Keith Rowley intends to resign from representational politics. Young has previously held the posts of Minister of National Security, Minister in the Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs and Minister of Communications. Young was appointed a Senior Counsel on 20 June 2024.
  
  Young lead the PNM into the 2025 Trinidad and Tobago general election which was lost to Kamla Persad-Bissessar of the United National Congress (UNC). In the aftermath of the election, Young resigned as PNM party chairman on April 30.