The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) is not ruling out coalescing with other political parties to contest the 2025 general and regional elections, but will insist on a tight agreement that must include poverty eradication, rebalancing of wealth distribution and constitutionally entrenched power sharing, co-leader Dr David Hinds said at the weekend. “Unlike the last time, when we just went in ...
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Jagdeo rules out power-sharing with PNCR on current conditions
General Secretary of Guyana’s governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo on Saturday reiterated that there could be no power-sharing unless the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led opposition sticks to several ground rules. “You have to have willing partners and there must be some attributes to those partners; trustworthiness is a key one,” Mr Jagdeo told delegates and observers at ...
Read More »GECOM should force interim power-sharing compromise to fix electoral system- Henry Jeffrey
The Chancellor of the Judiciary, Justice Yonette Cummings-Edwards should be asked by the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Retired Justice Claudette Singh to head an interim power-sharing administration to fix the electoral machinery and hold fresh elections in 18 months, political scientist Dr. Henry Jeffrey recommended. He believed that GECOM has the “power” to force a compromise between ...
Read More »OPINION: Pathway to power-sharing “the only way out of our draining problems”
By GHK Lall Though I am pessimistic about the prospects of power-sharing in this country, I see it as the only way out of our draining problems. The winner-takes-all results over each elections cycle have left us in a darker, more dangerous place. Our society is more polarized, losing citizens more disgruntled, more uncooperating, and more undermining. We cannot go ...
Read More »WPA calls for CARICOM-supervised vote recount as basis for power sharing, constitutional reform
The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) Saturday night called for a Caribbean Community (CARICOM)-supervised national recount of votes if it is constitutional, but said the winner should set the groundwork for power-sharing within a set timeframe. “We reiterate our demand that following the examination of the ballot boxes which reveal the credibility of the elections, whichever party wins the most votes ...
Read More »WPA says will abide by court decision; condemns PPP for stoking unrest
The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) — one of the parties in the governing APNU+AFC coalition — on Tuesday said it would abide by the High Court’s ruling on whether the Region Four election results should be verified or declared, even as it reiterated its historical call for power-sharing. “In the circumstances WPA deliberately refrains from commenting on the matters before ...
Read More »PPP will put GECOM, power sharing on constitutional reform agenda
The opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) on Friday promised to include power sharing and an overhaul of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) in constitutional reform should it win next year’s general elections, a day after one of Guyana’s more vocal private sector organisations flayed the elections management authority for the prolonged delay in holding general elections. Speaking at the unveiling ...
Read More »OPINION: What was feared already coming to a head
By GHK Lall What was feared is already coming to pass and in the worst way possible. What has been written about, and predicted about, and gone against the grain about, in more than one public forum, has unfolded in less than 24 hours since the CCJ went public. To refresh memories, the questions posed repeatedly in the last seven ...
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