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Reply to "APNU cannot win the PPP"

Originally Posted by KishanB:

 

 

If APNU believes that they are entitled to the Presidency, then let us call new elections after 3 year under the new constitution and let us have a 3 way race and see who get the most votes and then have a post elections alliance which the new constitution will allow for.

 


This isnt about whether APNU thinks that they are entitled to the Presidency.  If APNU gets the most votes then they get the executive.  The AFC isnt interested in a pre existing alliance with APNU.  So why are they telling APNU what to do.

 

What the AFC needs to do, once the new elections are held, is to begin the process of changing the constitution, developing their own ideas and requesting that the civic socety, and interested members of the public do the same.  There should be public forums to deal with this issue.

 

The AFC needs to get off their soap box of moral "superiority".  Trotman, Nagamootoo and Ramjattan were all members of the same legacy parties and didnt stand out as being in disagreement with those parties, until personal issues arose.  Trotman ran against Corbin, and lost, and Jagdeo ignored Ramjattan and Nagamootoo. 

 

In addition the behavior of the Hughes family with regards to Amaila Falls smacked of conflict of interest.

 

The AFC needs to let the people of Guyana determine who they wish to lead them, and involve the people of Guyana in fashioning a new constitution.

 

And if the thrust of these constitutional changes doesnt focus on improving local governance, making the goverining entities more accountable to the electorate, and increasing the involvement of the population in institutions of governance then it misses the point.  This should not be an attempted power grab by the AFC, which has failed to win a large amount of support, and so seems to wish to increase its power through back door deals.

FM
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