PRESIDENTIAL Candidate of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), Mr. Donald Ramotar has said that, unlike Opposition forces which have separate messages for separate communities, the PPP has never moved away from having a national policy and position. He was speaking to the media in the PPP Headquarters, Freedom House, Robb Street, Georgetown, on Thursday.
Refuting allegations that the party uses ‘bottom house’ campaigns on the basis of race, Ramotar said:“That goes against everything that the PPP believes in. From the very inception, we started as a multi-racial party. We have continued like that despite the split in the party.
“We do not have, unlike Mr. [Khemraj] Ramjattan and others in the AFC (Alliance for Change), separate messages for separate communities. We have one single message and that’s trying to work for national unity and progress so all could benefit.”
About the upcoming polls, the PPP General Secretary said:“We are ready for the elections. Our preparations are going very, very well at this point. We have had more than 400 community bottom house public meetings throughout the country and we are preparing to go into the next gear as soon as possible.”
The PPP/C hopes to get its manifesto out before the end of this month and Ramotar has expressed his conviction that it has the capacity and ability “to bring all our people together under the banner of the PPP/C.”
“Only PPP haters will not see the progress we have made and only the PPP haters keep, continually, burying their heads in the sand…not seeing the cross-over votes that we have been getting from 1992 to now,” he boasted.
Ramotar observed that, at a regional level, the PPP has made substantial progress throughout Guyana. As a consequence, for example, in 1992, the party managed to rake in a mere four percent of the votes in Region Ten (Upper Demerara/Berbice. However, the last elections saw the PPP getting 23 percent of those votes.
Excerpts from the Guyana Chronicle
Refuting allegations that the party uses ‘bottom house’ campaigns on the basis of race, Ramotar said:“That goes against everything that the PPP believes in. From the very inception, we started as a multi-racial party. We have continued like that despite the split in the party.
“We do not have, unlike Mr. [Khemraj] Ramjattan and others in the AFC (Alliance for Change), separate messages for separate communities. We have one single message and that’s trying to work for national unity and progress so all could benefit.”
About the upcoming polls, the PPP General Secretary said:“We are ready for the elections. Our preparations are going very, very well at this point. We have had more than 400 community bottom house public meetings throughout the country and we are preparing to go into the next gear as soon as possible.”
The PPP/C hopes to get its manifesto out before the end of this month and Ramotar has expressed his conviction that it has the capacity and ability “to bring all our people together under the banner of the PPP/C.”
“Only PPP haters will not see the progress we have made and only the PPP haters keep, continually, burying their heads in the sand…not seeing the cross-over votes that we have been getting from 1992 to now,” he boasted.
Ramotar observed that, at a regional level, the PPP has made substantial progress throughout Guyana. As a consequence, for example, in 1992, the party managed to rake in a mere four percent of the votes in Region Ten (Upper Demerara/Berbice. However, the last elections saw the PPP getting 23 percent of those votes.
Excerpts from the Guyana Chronicle
