PPP declares…
‘WE ARE READY FOR ANY ELECTIONS’
- accuses a drowning AFC of clutching at straw with ‘no-confidence’ motion
THE People’s Progressive Party (PPP) said it has taken note of the threat which Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Mr. Khemraj Ramjattan, has laid against His Excellency President Donald Ramotar, by proposing to bring a no-confidence motion against the PPP/C Government.“Our Party has never been afraid of facing the people we serve and we are prepared to put our case to the citizenry at any time,” the ruling PPP said in a statement yesterday.
“We commend His Excellency President Donald Ramotar, for his swift, erudite and forthright response to Ramjattan’s baseless threat,” the party declared.
It said the AFC’s call for such a motion at this time is aimed at influencing delegates who will be attending the PNC’s upcoming Congress.
That is one of the motives behind the no confidence “threat”, the PPP said.
“We are ready to face the people at any time and no threat of a no confidence motion will slow our resolve to faithfully serve our people and build a prosperous Guyana for all Guyanese” – PPP
“We know that the AFC has been losing support and its membership is hemorrhaging badly, it wants to regain its support but this time at the expense of the APNU. Ramjattan’s no confidence motion is nothing but a smoke screen and is tantamount to a drowning man clutching at straws,” the PPP asserted.
Further, it said the AFC through its promotion of this motion, has reached the pinnacle of its deceptive and blackmail politics, arrogantly being perpetrated against the Guyanese people.
“We wish to remind the AFC and at the same time reiterate that the PPP remains resolute and prepared for any election that may be precipitated by a no-confidence motion. We repeat, the PPP is ready and mobilized,” the PPP stated.
Wallowing in the newly won democracy since 1992 and freedoms restored by the PPP/C Government, the AFC also aimed its guns on the PPP claiming that the PPP/C Government is “demonstrating dictatorial tendencies”.
But the PPP is of the view that this call by the AFC is a blatant attempt to place the proverbial ‘Sword of Damocles’ over the Nation in an effort to derive political benefits and to satisfy its insatiable appetite for political self-interest at the expense of the Guyanese people.
The PPP said that as far as it is concerned, the Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh was executing his constitutional duty as he did in 2012 and 2013 when he tabled in the National Assembly the Statement of Excess on the Current and Capital Estimates; the AFC supported the cut that time, the application was upheld by the High Court.
“If as the AFC claims Minister Singh was engaged in an unconstitutional act in 2014, this means that the AFC was equally guilty of so doing in 2012 and 2013,” the PPP argued.
“Having penalised Guyanese with budget cuts for trans-formative projects, thus stymieing progress and morphed themselves as part of the People’s National Congress (PNC), the AFC is now facing the desertion of its elite and grass root membership who are now returning to the PPP,” the governing party said.
It noted, too, that the AFC, having found itself in a quandary, is now seeking to extricate itself by placing the blame at the door step of the PPP and to distance itself from any wrongdoing.
In this regards, the PPP reiterated that it is “ready to face the people at any time and no threat of a no confidence motion will slow our resolve to faithfully serve our people and build a prosperous Guyana for all Guyanese”.
