PPP can outfox the PNC any day of the week.

I agree

Dem Freedom House bais issued a void Elections Proclamation of no effect whatsoever last month to fool the Opposition and the Diplomatic Corps

Now they issued 2 Proclamations in 1 to clean up the issue

Ever since the tabling of the AFC no-confidence motion in parliament last July, the PPP leadership has been behaving like a nervous wreck.

Every move since then has been characterized by panic and irrationality, from sicking Johnny Welshman on Trotman to Ramotar's outburst "Bharrat Jagdeo woulddah slap you" to Nandlall's chatree threat down to the intriguing selection of Elisabeth Harper as Donald's running mate.

One desperate mistake after another the PPP leadership has been making, and there is more to come before May 11.

Actually by engaging in delaying tactics and displaying incompetence doesn't help the PPP.

I mean how does not handling elections (or dissolving parliament) properly look when the PPP doggedly insisted that this had to happen, even if it meant inconveniencing kids taking their CXC exams?

And yes Caribbean electorates have been known to punish arrogant leaders as those who dumped Patrick Manning of Trinidad, Owen Arthur of Barbados, and most recently Denzil Douglas of St Kitts Nevis, will happily inform.  All lost their jobs even as their economies were growing.

All that the PPP has going for them is that Guyanese are the most docile and demoralized electorate in the Caribbean, as they have never known true democracy, so don't think it in their power to exercise their vote properly.

I don't think this was a matter of incompetence. I think they deliberately did this to buy extra time in office. And it worked.

Now, they issue the "real" Proclamations which dissolves Parliament, dissolves the Councils, and calls for elections.

The even brighter part about all this for the PPP is that it renders the whole issue of the constitutionality of the previous Proclamations moot.

I can't recall any parallel of any democratic Government that goes through this much trouble to milk even the ostensibly routine ministerial/ceremonial legal/constitutional aspects of Government for maximum political advantage.

I hesitate to compare Guyana to any other part of the Caribbean Commonwealth because we've always been in a class of our own. We are an exception to every rule in every worst way possible.

Which is why I'm psychologically prepared for the re-election of the PPP on May 11th.