A senior Alliance for Change(AFC) Berbice official who played an integral part during the party's 2011 election campaign says that the AFC is currently working in the interest of the People's National Congress(PNC) and its A Partnership for National Unity(APNU) and this has caused it to loose the support garnered in Region Six.
AFC Region 6 Councilor Haseef Yusuf fell out with the party's leadership after he exposed internal corruption and other malpractices and said that the negative effects of not passing the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (Amendment) Bill 2013 are enough to erase all the economic progress Guyana made over the past 20 years. The AFC withheld its support for the amendments and says it will continue to do so unless President Donald Ramotar reverses his decision to not assent to two bills passed in the house by the opposition. The party also joined with the PNC's APNU in their efforts to stymie the timely passing of these critical pieces of legislation. Yusuf said that the effects together with the illegal budget cuts spearheaded by his party are enough to make the country ungovernable and to once again plunge Guyana into poverty, hunger and lawlessness.
He said that the good people of Guyana, including himself and those from Berbice who voted for the AFC at the last elections will not stand idly and allow this to happen. Yusuf said from the responses of numerous AFC members and supporters, in their wildest dreams they did not envisage such irrational and spiteful attitudes from the AFC leaders or that the AFC will aid and abet the PNC in its quest to make the country ungovernable.
He charged that party leader Khemraj Ramjattan cannot "bluff" the nation by saying that the AFC is ready for a snap election when in fact it isn't ready. He said that as things currently stand if elections were to be held the AFC will not fare as well as it did in 2011.