Great News Bhai Gilly. Insha Allah, all will be done soon.

This is (if true) is possibly the absolutely worse deal the AFC could have come out with.

Just awful. No one cares about the Second and Third Vice Presidency.

Also, why does anyone want the position of principal note taker at Cabinet Sessions?

Who is their chief negotiator? A member of the PNC?

So what is your solution learned one???

Ha Ha !

The AFC does not have the numbers to warrant the Presidency. Granger put them in their place.

Let this continue to unfold but this coalition is a win win for the PPP.

Guyana's politics is race based and Indos will flock to the PPP as much as Blacks will flock to the PNC.

AFC is a non factor in the election with their support base demolished.

The battle lies with the mixed race and Amerindians. At this stage, the PPP has the Amerindian base. A small percentage of the mixed race will take the PPP to a majority.

This elections means the end of the AFC. Guyana has never been kind to any third party.

The one outlined previously. An AFC Presidency, an APNU dominated Cabinet and APNU management of Parliament. Seems reasonable as it protects both parties.

Do you know/understand the POWERS of the Presidency???

I do. I also understand how a Cabinet majority works and how control of Parliament works. So it essentially forces a situation of deadlock if they don't work together. And if one side wishes to end the arrangement, they can just resort to new elections. President or Parliament.

PNC WILL NOT give the presidency to a coolie man. If they do, blacks will not vote for them. RACE, RACE, RACE. Like it or not..it's a fact of life in Guyana.

Let me ask you a simple question. Why would the second largest and most powerful Party gives up the Presidency to a 3 seat Party??/  Before you answer, HINTS:  The President of Guyana has the POWER to remove any and all Cabinet Members.

I am not going to bring Race in the discussion. We already know Guyana has a racial problem. I do believe People VOTE for the Party they can TRUST to improve their lives.

Bhai Gee Nehru....

Do you Understand that

the Illegal Burnham Constitution

that Give Jagdeo & Ramotar

all that power to Thief

and Shut down parliament

will be changed.

Are you that STUPID, oh yes you ARE!! What an ASS!!!!

They would do it because without that 7 seat party, there is no realistic chance in hell to win the Presidency and certainly not a clear majority of 33 in the Assembly....a feat the PNC has never done once in the history of Guyana.

I get the issue of Presidential prerogatives. It is adequately addressed by the Representative of the List positions going to APNU which allows them to sack all AFC MPs and essentially call for a no confidence motion at will.

Let's not get into absurdities here. There will not be some childish constitutional war between the AFC and the APNU in government. If they can't handle governing together, they will simply go to fresh elections alone. Article 106, Section 6.

You really don't know and understand Guyanese Politicians.

In any case, I wish the PNC/KFC Union all the best.

I understand that Guyanese politicians do what they're told when the principal Great Powers in Georgetown law down the Quran. Of that I'm sure of.

The PPP/C right now is being dragged kicking and screaming into unwanted elections because one low level junior Minister within the FCO responded to a single low ranking Conservative MP in the House of Commons. One MP talk to one junior Minister and Ramotar gat baxed.

Bhai, There is so much more you have to learn about Guyana politics. 

I respect your enthusiasm and drive but my advise is to slow down and talk to a few People about the nature of the Beast call Guyanese Politics.

I tend to occasionally chat with the low ranking foreigners who tell Guyana what to do ever so often

I appreciate your admonition but rest assured I am well advised.

sounds like you happy it's all based on RACE

Shaitaan Bhai, Enjoy the Day, I man busy, gat to drop off Gifts for 2 Sweethoman. And dem does want give me back a gift so it does tek up a lot of time. Enjoy your Day

Riff, you need to face reality. The PPP IS NOT an all inclusive coolie man party. There are plenty of black people in the party, regardless where they came from.
Guyana votes race whether you like it or not. Your PNC will never again get more than 40% of the votes compared to the over 70% they obtained through rigging and dictatorship.

looks like you celebrating the RACE based voting....Race based voting has never gotten Guyana anywhere

I am not celebrating race based voting. I am stating the facts. I have said before that I would like to see the PPP and PNC for a government for the good of Guyana. We in America do not suffer because of Guyana's politicians; the Guyanese population in Guyana suffer. Why shoul I dictate or suggest to the Guyanese population who they should vote for? I back a certain party and so do you. I am not going to cuss you down because of you political beliefs. Those politicians, once they get into power, don't give a rat's ass about the people. So if the AFC, PNC or the PPP says they will put the people first and you belive them, I have some land in Manahttan to sell to you.

Here is the problem.  The AFC needs the APNU.  Their survival is at stake as the long term existence of small 3rd parties in Guyana is dire. Ethnic insecurity suggests that APNU will always be the strong opposition party.

The AFC CANNOT guarantee that it has any votes to bring.  This is an EXCELLENT deal for a party which bases itself on dreams and not concrete achievements.

Does the AFC have these 7 seats cast in stone?  No!   They got votes as the alternate Indian party last time, when some Indians tired of the PPP.

Now embedded in what is the "black man party" considered by most Indians as their nemesis, can the AFC prove that they still have those votes?

I note that the AFC refuses to answer that question.

So APNU thinks that an alliance with the AFC to be nice, but not enough to relegate themselves to becoming the junior party in the relationship as some AFCites were foolish enough to think.

Nagamootoo might have the power to staff the cabinet, but if he gives too many seats to PPP refugees like himself (I see no evidence that he bonds with Afro Guyanese) APNU will simply withdraw and there will be nothing that the AFC would be able to do about that.

The AFC needed to prove that it had the votes. When I said that they should have had large meetings in PPP strongholds to prove this, instead they had "protests" with 8 people holding up cards.

So what evidence do we have the AFC+APNU=7+26=33 seats.  A{NU will keep its 26 seats as ethnic insecurity will ensure this. Will the AFC keep its 7 seats when of them are due to people who were tired of the PPP but terrified at the prospect of a PNC regime?

4+26=30. So why do folks think that APNU would have given full control to Nagamootoo?

True but until there is a discussion as to why this race based voting takes place then it will continue.

The AFC should have developed an alliance based on civic society starting in January 2012 to begin discussions about this phenomenon and to develop solutions to end it. 

Obvious the PPP, and the PNC, which owe their survival to this behavior, will not be interested in ending it. 

One would hope that civic society, which has suffered with Guyana remaining the poorest English speaking Caribbean nation, despite being the most endowed in natural resources, and being the lowest cost producer, due to its ample and cheap land and labor, should benefit from a healthier political environment.

The AFC has this habit of going to sleep after each election, and then reinvigorating itself later on, arrogant in the belief that the complete ineptness of the PPP and the PNC is enough to give them grounds to have votes flowing in their direction. 

And then there was the PPP refugee issue, which has turned the AFC to look like Indo party II, in the eyes of many.  Every strategy of theirs aims at the Indian vote, taking the African vote for granted.

That Coalition needs a Third voice. Granger better seriously start looking at that option. They have put themselves into a hole. The electorate must be completely stunned. The majority perhaps doan have a clue what is going on.

That will keep them away.

The PNC lost 6 times in a row. On May 11th it will suffer again and lose some more of its major financial supporters.

So why doesn't the PPP get black votes?  The PPP is the Indo KKK and the blacks who support them are like the ones who voted for David Duke!

And you have yet to prove that the AFC would have changed the prospects for the PNC.

What financial supporters does the AFC have?  If they did they wouldn't be  bothered with an alliance with the PNC.'

Their focus would have been to remain independent and to chip away enough votes from the two major parties, thereby ensuring that neither controlled parliament, and then using this to exercise control beyond its numbers to be the swing vote. BOTH the PNC and the PPP would have needed to woo their support.

Now jumping into bed with the PNC they have lost this independence.

You need to ask yourself whether the AFC will be around after this election.

Carib, having black people in your party does not mean votes.

AFC/APNU coalition  is a reality, that's the only way a second party to be relevant .What will be the name of the coalition, New Democratic Party. For all you KFC, this will be a sure death of the AFC, As of Monday no more AFC. In disguise this coalition is a blessing for the PPP,. the fact remains Guyanese vote by RACE, the swing votes will be the non Blacks/Indian votes, The Amerindians, Putagee, Chinese, Whites and Dugla are the votes to determine the next government. By eliminating the third party the choice is clear you vote either PPP or PNC.

All dem presidents so far run up bills in travels, cut ribbons and other menial things.

If the AFC was that strong they would have contested the election on their own merits, knowing that a weakened PPP and PNC would ensure them a strong position in parliament, and position them for control in 2020.

The AFC lost because they have given the PPP an opportunity to insist that they were never independent in the first place.

How can they claim the moral high ground when they jumped into bed with one of the elements which is responsible for the mess that Guyana is in?

Why is that?  Of the vast majority of Afro Guyanese resent the PPP and consider it racist, and if the few blacks in the PPP are token stooges with no real clout then of what relevance is your crap?

The PPP is owned by Indians, run by Indians, for the sole benefit of Indians and I challenge you to prove otherwise.

Your perception as a PNC supporter. We said the same thing of the PNC for the blacks in the dictatorship and election rigging days.

I don't care about the survival of the AFC. I care about a realistic shot of bringing the anti-PPP forces to 51%. Let me be perfectly clear. I am as much in the dark about all of this as everyone else seems to be (except the Gold Teet Brigade and their ass-centered approach to "numbers") and claim no special insight or wisdom.

My personal speculation/gut check is that an AFC-APNU Alliance with Moses as Presidential candidate is the best shot. For now, I think the need to poach some PPP support somehow must be a starting point of our analysis. I happily concede that I do not know if this will work and may not backfire spectacularly by producing even a majority PPP/C Government. Or it might be better for APNU to go it alone, gamble on a Minority Presidency win and then do a post-election coalition with the AFC who would least maintain the balance of power in Parliament. Or go it alone and end up with another PPP/C Minority win with a hung parliament and try a pre-election coalition next time in a few months via a MONC. All of possibilities seem fraught with some degree of guess work. What is clear though is that the PPP can muddle through with hung parliaments and Minority Presidencies. So the status quo is not desirable. It is only marginally an improvement over a PPP/C majority Government.

Were I the PNC, having never won an election EVER, because 100% of the black vote has never equaled at least a plural majority in Guyana (yet), I would gamble with the Moses as Presidential Candidate option because my core support base of blacks really have no where to go. Assume a worst case performance of another hung parliament and roll the dice.

I'm willing to accept arguendo that Indos are more clannish/racist than Blacks which is the sole reason I think Moses should be the Presidential Candidate. I don't care if they rotate midterm. As long enough Indos can feel psychologically safe enough to cast a ballot against the PPP.

Permit me to channel one of my heroes the late very great Abba Eban, the distinguished FM of Israel, when he would speak about the Palestinians "They never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity." If the PNC botches this one, then to hell with them.