Senior Reporter[email protected]Opposition Leader Pennelope Beckles is pushing back against criticism from within the People’s National Movement (PNM), after party stalwarts urged her to exercise more decisive leadership of the 70-year-old organisation. With local government elections due next year, former San Juan/Laventille Regional Corporation chairman Anthony Roberts and former PNM general secretary Ashton Ford both questioned Beckles’ decisiveness. Breaking her silence, Beckles noted that the report cited only two critics within a party of more than 100,000 members. We are due to meet again, and then I will give my pronouncement on it.”She rejected claims that she was being soft, stressing that party leadership structures were actively engaged. “Yes, I am political leader, but there is a leadership, and also there is a procedure as it relates to matters similar to that of Mr Balliram Maharaj.