Guyana Mosquito has learned that a formal petition has been made to have Bharrat Jagdeo serve as the Prime  Ministerial candidate for the People’s Progressive Party in the upcoming elections.  The petition to the party’s central and committees recommends Jagdeo as PM with “direct responsibilities for Agriculture and Natural Resources.”

While Jagdeo has been out of the public light for the past few months, speculation about his exact participation in the upcoming polls has been fueled by the PPP’s failure so far to name a replacement for current PM Sam Hinds who has served in that capacity since 1992 with brief stints as President, by leaks of fragmentation within the PPP between Jagdeo and Ramotar, and most recently by a legal motion filed challenging the constitutional term limits which currently prevent Jagdeo from contesting the Presidency.