Donald Ramotar has surprised even his own supporters
Dear Editor,
Guyana’s current dilemma of an effective shutdown of Government by Donald Ramotar’s ‘proroguing’ is unbelievable, impossible, heretic, ridiculous, and absolutely hilarious. Upon being confronted with the breaking news as early as Sunday, I furiously penned an immediate response of my facebook page rallying all Guyana to come to Georgetown to protest this action. I still do encourage all Guyanese to get on board and arrest our slide into dictatorship.
I can honestly say that I subsequently burst out laughing at the ridiculous circumstance Guyana is now presented with by Donald Ramotar and his administration. I am most certainly sure that he surprised even his own supporters.
We have on our hands a potentially destructive situation, and the sooner diffused the better. I have rationalized the situation and am proposing a solution which I think presents the least risk of loss for all involved. I do hope that if not this, then some similar rationale could be devised as a means of arresting this present crisis.
The PPP has maneuvered itself into a nice little box where, in assuming undemocratic power, it strips itself of all authority over Guyana’s democratic institutions. Donald Ramotar has effectively exited the Executive Office to which he was democratically elected, and he and his administration have no claim to the democratic authority entrusted in them by the electorate.
Hence, the institutions of democracy responsible for enforcing law and justice, namely the Police and the Army, are under no obligation to carry out any instruction of the Executive, since the Executive is now operating beyond the democratic norms of Government.
This now means that the Head of the Army, whoever that may be, not Donald Ramotar, is now in full authority and control of Security until Guyana is returned to Democratic Rule.
Right thinking ministers of the PPP, the Minister of Finance included, are encouraged to examine their conscience and step away from the injustice the PPP is pursuing in its current agenda of dictatorial imposition by resigning from their ministerial positions. They were democratically elected to these positions.
Under the current scenario, they are a dictatorial imposition and fly in the face of the Democratic norms of Guyana. Resigning now effectively removes them from any proceedings which may be pursued against the remaining members of the PPP administration upon the resolution of this current crisis.
Craig Sylvester