A trial date was set yesterday for the hearing of the election petition which People's National Party candidate Abe Dabdoub has filed in the Supreme Court seeking to oust Jamaica Labour Party Member of Parliament Daryl Vaz.

The petition, in which Dabdoub is contending that Vaz has dual citizenship, is to start on December 11.

Lawyers representing the parties agreed to the trial date when they appeared before Chief Justice Zaila McCalla for a case-management conference at the Supreme Court.

Dabdoub, in his petition, is alleging that Vaz has pledged allegiance to a foreign country and under the Constitution of Jamaica he is not eligible to be a Member of Parliament. He is claiming that Vaz is the holder of an American passport and is a citizen of that country.

He is also contending that there were irregularities which took place in the West Portland constituency on election day.