We are prepared to go into the elections as ‘a partnership’
–APNU Leader, David Granger
LEADER of the main opposition coalition, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), Brigadier (retd) David Granger, declared Friday that APNU is “prepared to go into the elections as a partnership” if snap elections are to be called before the no-confidence motion is tabled in the National Assembly.
General Secretary of the ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Mr Clement Rohee, had earlier this month disclosed that the ruling party and government were actively considering the possibility of calling snap elections. The intervening time before the no-confidence motion can be considered – after the parliamentary recess has ended sometime in October — leaves room for snap elections to be called by the ruling party before the no-confidence motion, which was submitted to the National Assembly by the Alliance For Change, is tabled.
Responding to the readiness of his coalition in the event of a snap election, Granger declared: “Yes, we are prepared to go into the elections as a partnership.”
However, after controversy had surrounded the 18th Biennial Congress of the Peoples National Congress (PNC) held last month, it had been speculated that internal issues would have prevented the APNU’s readiness to contest Local Government or General Elections, were they to be called immediately.
The Opposition Leader refuted those speculations, noting: “We have been making preparations, and we are ready to face the elections, whether it’s Local Government or National Elections.”
He further explained that the PNC is a party that comprises twelve regions, the two additional regions being North America and the United Kingdom; and the internal issues that the party experienced was with one region alone. “It was not the whole region; it was not the whole region 10”, he said, stressing that the trouble had been with only about 30 or forty persons from Linden.
According to Granger, the matters have been resolved internally. “But I do not feel that the behaviour of those 30 or 40 persons should suggest that the party is divided, or that the party is unprepared,” he said.
(By Ravin Singh)
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