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STABROEK NEWS, FEB 22 ---

The opposition alliance APNU-AFC has described the PPP/C’s naming yesterday of career diplomat Elisabeth Harper to be its prime ministerial candidate as an act of desperation and one that signals division in the party.

The APNU-AFC press release follows:

APNU-AFC notes the naming of career diplomat Elizabeth Harper as Prime Ministerial candidate of the beleaguered minority PPP slate for the May 11 election.

APNU-AFC acknowledges Mrs Harper’s contribution to the civil service and as a career diplomat. However this move by the Freedom House handlers is one which confirms that the PPP is deeply divided and in disarray.

It speaks to the lack of leadership depth within the PPP. It speaks to the PPP’s woeful ineptitude in succession planning, both as a party and as a government. It speaks to the intense and bitter jockeying for power and the Prime Ministerial nomination in particular which has obviously become so acrimonious that an outside consensus candidate in Mrs. Harper had to have been introduced in an attempt to calm the acrimonious tensions. The public has seen adequate signs of the ongoing deep distrust and infighting that is thundering through the PPP.

APNU-AFC is also disappointed that Mrs. Harper would allow her name and professional reputation to be used by the PPP regime in a feeble attempt to mask the obscene levels of corruption with which it has become synonymous.

Nevertheless the PPP boats already “gone ah falls”. This appointment is the old PPP tactic of trying to cure a cancer with a bandaid and two paracetamols.

APNU-AFC also questions the intent of the PPP in naming former President Bharrat Jagdeo to an obscure senior non-constitutional position before naming their Prime Ministerial candidate who, it appears, will have even less powers than Sam Hinds had. Nevertheless it is all moot as Mrs. Harper’s chances of becoming PM on May 11th are nil, as are the PPP’s chances of victory.

The people of Guyana are prepared and waiting to evict the PPP from the seat of government and the desperate naming of Mrs. Harper as Prime Ministerial candidate will not avert their imminent loss.

Too little too late. Nothing can save the PPP now.

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 PM Candidate Elizabeth Harper has close family ties to the late President Burnham. This  complicates the Burnham bashing and race-baiting that is usually the core of the PPP/C campaigning.

 

 

Mitwah

It is the right of the Peoples Progressive Party to name whom ever they wishes for their Prime Ministerial Candidate. It is none of the damn business of the APNU-AFC. Show some bloody respect to the woman.

 

News for Granger and Nagamoottoo get off your backsides and start talking to the citizens. Thinking the people are dissatisfied does not mean they will vote APNU-AFC.

S
Originally Posted by seignet:

It is the right of the Peoples Progressive Party to name whom ever they wishes for their Prime Ministerial Candidate. It is none of the damn business of the APNU-AFC. Show some bloody respect to the woman.

 

News for Granger and Nagamoottoo get off your backsides and start talking to the citizens. Thinking the people are dissatisfied does not mean they will vote APNU-AFC.

AFC is active on the ground according to feed i get from their

fb page.

Django
Originally Posted by seignet:

It is the right of the Peoples Progressive Party to name whom ever they wishes for their Prime Ministerial Candidate. It is none of the damn business of the APNU-AFC. Show some bloody respect to the woman.

 

News for Granger and Nagamoottoo get off your backsides and start talking to the citizens. Thinking the people are dissatisfied does not mean they will vote APNU-AFC.

I disagree with your first paragraph.  Given that she will be PM in the 51% probability that the PPP wins, then she will have domain over Guyanese, so it is OUR business to opine on who the PPP selects.

 

I do agree with your second paragraph.  Harper is unknown and will not impact (positively or negatively) the PPP vote so the APNU/AFC need to srat aggressively mobilizing, and registering the bases, and actively campaigning to win support. 

 

The "mistake" that the PPP supposedly made with Harper, might not be any more damaging than the "mistake" that Granger and Nagamootoo made when they hugged (but didn't kiss) after making their wedding vows.

 

Harper will not deliver any black votes, and will not change the view that the PPP is racist.  But then some of Nagamootoo's PPP base who supported him last time, or quite aghast at what he is doing this time.

FM
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After initial reactions, people will understand it's the road we must take.

 

How else can you rid the country of the PPP rogues?

 

But WE must influence the people.  We need all hands on deck.

 

Call your relative/friends, everyone you know.  Contribute to the campaign pot. This section is for our future.  It's the tipping point for our country.

FM
Originally Posted by Django:
Originally Posted by seignet:

It is the right of the Peoples Progressive Party to name whom ever they wishes for their Prime Ministerial Candidate. It is none of the damn business of the APNU-AFC. Show some bloody respect to the woman.

 

News for Granger and Nagamoottoo get off your backsides and start talking to the citizens. Thinking the people are dissatisfied does not mean they will vote APNU-AFC.

AFC is active on the ground according to feed i get from their

fb page.

AFC has a problem that the PPP and the PNC don't have, and that is the need to prove that they have mass support.  If all they do is meet 20 people here and 12 there that doesn't accomplish this.  Many, who would support the AFC, don't because they see them as being too weak.

 

This time the AFC needs to prove that it is part of APNU+AFC, and not subsumed into APNU as the WPA now is. 

 

I will also suggest that, should the coalition win, the AFC will need to show strength within this gov't by proving that it delivered its share of the votes this time.  Given their 40% share of cabinet, they need to prove that they delivered 20% of the votes.

FM
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Originally Posted by seignet:

It is the right of the Peoples Progressive Party to name whom ever they wishes for their Prime Ministerial Candidate. It is none of the damn business of the APNU-AFC. Show some bloody respect to the woman.

Each political group has the right to name its candidates for President and Prime Minister positions.

 

The politicians need to concentrate on presenting their parties' programs and focus on the election issues.

 

On May 11, 2015, the winning registered political group will be elected by the registered voters.

FM

The opposition alliance APNU-AFC has described the PPP/C’s naming yesterday of career diplomat Elisabeth Harper to be its prime ministerial candidate as an act of desperation and one that signals division in the party.

 

The people of Guyana are prepared and waiting to evict the PPP from the seat of government and the desperate naming of Mrs. Harper as Prime Ministerial candidate will not avert their imminent loss

 

STABROEK NEWS, FEB 22 ---

The May 2015 elections, PNC and AFC will again be firmly in the opposition benches with less members than at the end of this parliamentary session, while the PPP/C will emerge with 52+ percent of the votes.

 

Some, but not the majority of the voters, will indeed want to evict the PPP/C.

FM
Originally Posted by Jay Bharrat:

After initial reactions, people will understand it's the road we must take.

 

How else can you rid the country of the PPP rogues?

 

But WE must influence the people.  We need all hands on deck.

 

Call your relative/friends, everyone you know.  Contribute to the campaign pot. This section is for our future.  It's the tipping point for our country.

JB, which party should we contribute to?

FM
Originally Posted by Billy Ram Balgobin:

Why not an Amerindian person?

Amerindians do not count with the PPP. They feel they can always bead trade with them. A a few refurbish chainsaws and to them they get a village is their firm belief...if it is those like Dharamlal or Ganga doing the deal  they will want in trade also some  fine specimen of our Amerindian womanhood as part of the  bargain.  Pryia wont bat an eye. Our women do not count as real woman...they are just bucks.

FM

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