President exposes “opposition plot” at De Edward meeting
Georgetown, GINA, November 12, 2011
Source - GINA
President Bharrat Jagdeo speaking to residents of De Edward, West Coast Berbice during a public meeting
President Bharrat Jagdeo called on residents of De Edward, West Coast Berbice to be watchful of the approach opposition parties are using during the 2011 national and regional elections campaign which are similar to the tactic used in the past to oust the incumbent government.
Speaking to a large number of residents in the village this evening he recalled the struggles of the late President Dr. Cheddi Jagan against colonisers who thought of Guyanese as second class citizens and the coalition that was formed to unseat the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), the first national party in Guyana.
He pointed a finger at colonizers for engineering a new constitutional and electoral system that saw a coalition between the People’s National Congress (PNC) and the United Force (TUF) at the time that won the 1964 national elections.
“Today again we are seeing all the signs of that happening. The secret meetings between APNU (A Partnership for National Unity) and the AFC (Alliance for Change), their only objective is to bring our votes below 50 percent so that we will win the presidency but we can’t manage the country because they will control the parliament. We wouldn’t be able to pass the budget, we wouldn’t be able to pass any legislation, the country will come to a standstill,” President Jagdeo said.
President Bharrat Jagdeo sharing a jovial moment with residents of De Edward, West Coast Berbice after a public meeting
He then turned his attention to the public meetings hosted by the AFC in communities where the PPP/C support is strong and the deliberate statements by new member Moses Nagamootoo and Presidential Candidate Khemraj Ramjattan about corruption and bribery.
The case argued by AFC member and attorney at law Nigel Hughes about senior positions being offered Guyanese of Indian descent was also highlighted and debunked by President Jagdeo.
“We believe in bringing people together. You have many leaders in Government who are Afro-Guyanese but they don’t show those people because they all got there on their merit,” President Jagdeo said.
The Head of State spoke proudly of the PPP/C’s unanimous message of peace and unity as against the opposition taking a different message to a different region. Reference was also made to their raucous entry to City Hall on Nomination Day and their obstruction at the presidential debate and the PPP/C rally in Buxton as examples of their “unchanged demeanours.”
A section of the large gathering at De Edward, West Coast Berbice during a PPP/C public meeting
He spoke of the coverage by some sections of the media noting that “they (media) would come and focus on a few people here at the AFC crowd and say ‘AFC has a massive crowd at their rally’ like at Whim when they 300 people and then the same Whim meeting where we had 8000 people they would say hundreds”.
November 28 is the date set for national and regional elections in Guyana.
Georgetown, GINA, November 12, 2011
Source - GINA
President Bharrat Jagdeo speaking to residents of De Edward, West Coast Berbice during a public meetingPresident Bharrat Jagdeo called on residents of De Edward, West Coast Berbice to be watchful of the approach opposition parties are using during the 2011 national and regional elections campaign which are similar to the tactic used in the past to oust the incumbent government.
Speaking to a large number of residents in the village this evening he recalled the struggles of the late President Dr. Cheddi Jagan against colonisers who thought of Guyanese as second class citizens and the coalition that was formed to unseat the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), the first national party in Guyana.
He pointed a finger at colonizers for engineering a new constitutional and electoral system that saw a coalition between the People’s National Congress (PNC) and the United Force (TUF) at the time that won the 1964 national elections.
“Today again we are seeing all the signs of that happening. The secret meetings between APNU (A Partnership for National Unity) and the AFC (Alliance for Change), their only objective is to bring our votes below 50 percent so that we will win the presidency but we can’t manage the country because they will control the parliament. We wouldn’t be able to pass the budget, we wouldn’t be able to pass any legislation, the country will come to a standstill,” President Jagdeo said.
President Bharrat Jagdeo sharing a jovial moment with residents of De Edward, West Coast Berbice after a public meetingHe then turned his attention to the public meetings hosted by the AFC in communities where the PPP/C support is strong and the deliberate statements by new member Moses Nagamootoo and Presidential Candidate Khemraj Ramjattan about corruption and bribery.
The case argued by AFC member and attorney at law Nigel Hughes about senior positions being offered Guyanese of Indian descent was also highlighted and debunked by President Jagdeo.
“We believe in bringing people together. You have many leaders in Government who are Afro-Guyanese but they don’t show those people because they all got there on their merit,” President Jagdeo said.
The Head of State spoke proudly of the PPP/C’s unanimous message of peace and unity as against the opposition taking a different message to a different region. Reference was also made to their raucous entry to City Hall on Nomination Day and their obstruction at the presidential debate and the PPP/C rally in Buxton as examples of their “unchanged demeanours.”
A section of the large gathering at De Edward, West Coast Berbice during a PPP/C public meetingHe spoke of the coverage by some sections of the media noting that “they (media) would come and focus on a few people here at the AFC crowd and say ‘AFC has a massive crowd at their rally’ like at Whim when they 300 people and then the same Whim meeting where we had 8000 people they would say hundreds”.
November 28 is the date set for national and regional elections in Guyana.
