Ambassador Robinson wrote:
¶7. (SBU) Outraged letters to the editor bemoaned Jagdeo’s failure to reach out across party lines, but it was unrealistic to expect him to bestow any ministerial positions on his People’s National Congress (PNC) archrivals after winning in a landslide. The grumblers never acknowledge that Jagdeo’s cabinet-which roughly mirrors Guyana’s diverse ethnic makeup-is 30% Afro-Guyanese. Although Jagdeo has committed to a vague “enhanced framework for inter-party cooperation,” he has never answered PNC leader Robert Corbin’s call for “shared and inclusive” governance. With an absolute majority in the National Assembly, the PPP has no reason to share its victory spoils.
¶7. (SBU) Outraged letters to the editor bemoaned Jagdeo’s failure to reach out across party lines, but it was unrealistic to expect him to bestow any ministerial positions on his People’s National Congress (PNC) archrivals after winning in a landslide. The grumblers never acknowledge that Jagdeo’s cabinet-which roughly mirrors Guyana’s diverse ethnic makeup-is 30% Afro-Guyanese. Although Jagdeo has committed to a vague “enhanced framework for inter-party cooperation,” he has never answered PNC leader Robert Corbin’s call for “shared and inclusive” governance. With an absolute majority in the National Assembly, the PPP has no reason to share its victory spoils.