PPP aiming for two-thirds parliamentary majority

Last Updated on Wednesday, 30 July 2025, 19:21 by Writer

The incumbent People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) on Tuesday night indicated that it was aiming for a two-thirds parliamentary majority in the September 1, 2025 general and regional elections – a target, if achieved, will allow that party free reign to amend Guyana’s Constitution.

Attorney-at-Law James Bond, once an executive member of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), told a public meeting at Joseph Pollydore (D’Urban) and Hill Streets, Lodge, that his newly-found political home will be looking to win the 2020 elections by a handsome majority.

“I say we got to beat them by at least ten seats. When we beat them so bad is then they must come over,” he told the meeting. He later told Demerara Waves Online News that the ten seats would be in addition to the 33 seats that the PPPC won in 2020.

Entrenched provisions such as presidential immunities, presidential term limits, eligibility for election as president, and the removal of registrants from the national database of registrants are among those that require at least two-thirds parliamentary support in the 65-seat National Assembly. The PPPC has already committed to constitutional reform and has established a Constitutional Reform Commission whose work could accelerate after the polls.

PNCR Leader Aubrey Norton had repeatedly said he was confident that his party’s coalition, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), continued to enjoy solid support in its strongholds such as Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) and Region Ten (Upper Demerara-Upper Berbice) which includes Linden.

Housing and Water Minister Susan Rodrigues reiterated the importance of her party winning Region Four, saying that the PPPC wants to win 20,000 or 30,000 more votes in Region Four to gain control of that Council to increase support and improve quality of life of Georgetown residents. “You know that for over 50 years, the Mayor and City Council has been under the control of the PNC and that is why it is very important that we work hard in Region Four to deliver this region to the People’s Progressive Party,” she said. She claimed that the opposition was shocked by the PPPC’s increased support of about 10,000 new votes.

Public Works Minister Juan Edghill predicted that not only would the PPPC regain power but his party would win both regions Four and Ten. He said that was because of the PPP’s work on improving families in those regions. “The regions that have been traditionally controlled by the PNC-APNU-AFC, they must no longer have the majority to stifle the development of these regions,” he added. He said those who believed that Region Four was theirs “were making a big mistake.