The government has since appointed Dr. Ramayya as Regional Executive Officer (REO)... Excellent move.

THE PPP HAS LEARNT NOTHING

The PPP has learnt nothing from its electoral setback

s of the past four years.

Those setbacks should have led to a radical reassessment

of the party’s strategies and postures.

It is behaving in the same way

that allowed it to first lose its electoral majority

and then eventually to lose power in the elections of this year.

Since the formation of the AFC,

the PPP’s tactics have been to alienate this party

which it sees as encroaching on its support base.

In 2006 it was joined by the PNCR

in a deal which saw collaboration

to exclude the AFC in the appointment of

Regional Chairpersons and Vice Chairpersons.

The tactics of both parties then were obvious.

The AFC represented a threat to their support bases

and therefore needed to be targeted.

The PPP has continued with this tactic

even after the 2011 election.

The PPP went into the 2011 elections

arguing that a vote for the AFC was a vote for the PNCR.

The populace did not buy that argument

and the AFC did remarkably well enough

to hand the combined opposition enough seats

to deny the PPP a majority in the National Assembly.

Instead of recognizing the rejection of its arguments,

the PPP continued its attacks on the AFC.

Instead of trying to mend fences with the AFC,

the PPP instead opted to have negotiations

only with the PNCR on budget and other issues.

It was attempting to play the PNCR off against the AFC.

Attempts by the AFC

to try to negotiate with the PPP government

were rebuffed at every stage and

therefore the AFC had no choice

but to adopt a confrontation stance against the PPP

and to join up with the PNCR in the National Assembly

to cripple the rule of the PPP.

This was successfully done to the point

whereby the PPP was forced to prorogue parliament

to avoid the humiliation of a no-confidence vote.

The PPP still did nothing to try to negotiate with the AFC.

Instead it pushed the AFC into a coalition with the PNCR.

When this happened the PPP took to the same non-conciliatory line.

It attacked the AFC.

The PPP was hoping that when the AFC joined with the PNCR

their supporters would have returned to the PPP and PNCR.

But this did not happen.

The AFC held its support

and the coalition by the skin of its teeth won the 2015 elections.

It was the closet election ever in the history of Guyana

and probably the closet one ever.

The PPP has still not learnt from its electoral demise.

It continues to target the AFC.

Just this past weekend,

it mobilized its supporters in Whim

against the Prime Minister of Guyana, Moses Nagamootoo

accusing the AFC of betraying the people of Berbice.

That is a failed strategy.

It has not worked in nine years and it will not work.

The PPP should try something new.

It should work at the grassroots

to woo back the supporters it lost to the AFC.

But it cannot do this by attacking the AFC.

When you attack the leaders of a party that people support,

the supporters of that party go to the defense of their party.

A smarter strategy should be used,

one that attempts to reach out to the AFC leadership

rather than undermining it.

The AFC support is not about its leadership.

The AFC does not represent a constituency

that no longer wishes to be seen as being either PPP or PNCR

but this does not mean that this constituency

does not realize

the importance of the AFC aligning with either grouping

to achieve political objectives.

The PPP however is in a self-destructive mode.

It does not understand such tactics and therefore

it will robotically continue in the same vein.

By the way,

the government has appointed

the AFC’s Moses Nagmootoo

as its point person to negotiate with the PPP;

the PPP has been given another opportunity

to repair its breach with the AFC.

The PPP will not make use of that opportunity.

It has no interest in building better relations with the AFC.

It has no interest in building better relations with civil society.

It has no interest in reaching out to the supporters of the PNC.

It only knows one type of politics and

this is why it will remain

in the opposition for a long, long time.

Mits....

Looks like the PPP

Miss the Bus Again...

Moses has not done anything for Indians to support the PNC.  He spent $60 million on himself. 

Rama

I agree with you....

Jagdeo & Ramotar with help from Ravi Dev

made Lamumba, Phalourie Joe,

Philip Bynoe, Edgehill, Witicka, Nascimento,

Brian Young, Jerry Gouviea, McClean,

Jennifer Westford and Kwame McCoy.....

PPP Jihaji Pandits.....

And De Guyanese Indian wanted this...

So they sat Quiet and did nothing

as Jagdeo, Ramotar & Ravi Dave

move them Bandits into Freedom House and

The Office of The President

and show their Support for

Black House of Israel

Thugs, Killers & Rapist ....

By Hanging Mala & Pooja-ing them Daily.

While the New Govt got

Moses, RamJattan, Raphel, Nigel,

Clive Thomas & Rupert Roopnarine.....

PPP is stuck with

Lamumba, Edgehill, Kwame & Jenny...