The PNC has truly become a pariah. No one is coming to their aid. David Hinds cannot complain about ethnic targeting because people of many races and nationalities are condemning their actions.

This can be found in today's Peeping Tom column which shows the extent that some will go to get what they want. One leader within the Working People’s Alliance, is attempting to turn an election crisis into an ethnic crisis. This person wants the ballot boxes to be set aside and power sharing to be introduced. This is another way of saying that he only wants his side to win. But he should know that there is no way that either of the two main political parties could have received the votes they received without non-traditional support. There is no ethnic conflict at the moment. What there is, is an attempt to manufacture such a crisis. What is happening in Guyana is a blatant and an unadulterated attempt at electoral banditry. And intelligent people are being politically immoral in parroting falsehoods in order to facilitate this banditry. Where there is electoral banditry, democracy turns into dictatorship. And when there is no leadership in government mob rules takes root.

@Former Member posted:

The PNC has truly become a pariah. No one is coming to their aid. David Hinds cannot complain about ethnic targeting because people of many races and nationalities are condemning their actions.

This can be found in today's Peeping Tom column which shows the extent that some will go to get what they want. One leader within the Working People’s Alliance, is attempting to turn an election crisis into an ethnic crisis. This person wants the ballot boxes to be set aside and power sharing to be introduced. This is another way of saying that he only wants his side to win. But he should know that there is no way that either of the two main political parties could have received the votes they received without non-traditional support. There is no ethnic conflict at the moment. What there is, is an attempt to manufacture such a crisis. What is happening in Guyana is a blatant and an unadulterated attempt at electoral banditry. And intelligent people are being politically immoral in parroting falsehoods in order to facilitate this banditry. Where there is electoral banditry, democracy turns into dictatorship. And when there is no leadership in government mob rules takes root.

Exactly. The PPP/C overcame the ethnic barrier on March 2. Thousands of other ethnicities joined Indos to vote PPP/C.

That didn't happen overnight. The red flag was raised to APNU+AFC during the 2016 and 2018 Local Government Elections when the PPP/C got the greater number of popular votes cast. Guyanese were abandoning the APNU+AFC since then.

It was a case of "love lost" for the Coalition. But like some jilted lover, the Coalition refused to take NO for an answer and insists on forcing its "love". That is barefaced bullying.

@Former Member posted:

Exactly. The PPP/C overcame the ethnic barrier on March 2. Thousands of other ethnicities joined Indos to vote PPP/C.

That didn't happen overnight. The red flag was raised to APNU+AFC during the 2016 and 2018 Local Government Elections when the PPP/C got the greater number of popular votes cast. Guyanese were abandoning the APNU+AFC since then.

It was a case of "love lost" for the Coalition. But like some jilted lover, the Coalition refused to take NO for an answer and insists on forcing its "love". That is barefaced bullying.

Except for the Kim Kardashian/Kris Humphries one, the Coalition's honeymoon with many of those who supported it in 2015 was very short lived. The 2016 LGE were held barely 10 months after the 2015 GRE and already signs of major cracks were evident. It had more to do with the government's behavior than the voters' patience. First the government begin breaking its campaign promises to the rice farmers, teachers and other public servants. They claimed that they didn't have the funds for the salary increases they promised but still found funds to give itself massive salary increases as well as increase the size of the government from the previous government. Then crimes began to rise and business began to contract. Then they took away the student stimulus grant and increased taxes. Then there was the egregious sugar workers layoffs and their tormented wait for about a whole year to receive their severance pay. I don't think all the severances are fully paid as yet. But they did regain some support or sympathy after the NCM and had they not one down one delay approach after another, they may have fared better at the March 2019 elections.

If ethnic voting didn't become a less reliable tool prior to 2015, it certainly did in 2015. The Coalition were misguided to think that it still existed in 2020 and so misconstrued their needed approach for the March 2, 2020 elections.