The electoral polls are tellingly unambiguous, PNC and AFC contesting 2025 as separate political entities, will most certainly face defeat at the hands of the corruptible PPP. And considering this reality, of a certain electoral defeat without a coalition, one would’ve anticipated from both sides, some level of accommodation. However, that has proven impossibly difficult, with the outcome of the negotiation, predicted if not celebrated by some sections of the media, being a most bitter pill to swallow. But the political actors involve, PNC and AFC, seem indifferent to the collective wish of the masses, evident with their unashamed tussle for positions and presidency.
Now, with the parties unashamedly tussling for positions and presidency, means we the voting masses, are compelled to scrutinise their negotiating posture. Thus, we examine AFC, a party that has never garnered 40% of the aggregate votes, nonetheless is demanding a 40-60 split of the ministerial appointments, should the coalition be elected.
Then, having made demands for a near equal split of the ministerial appointments, they the minor party in the proposed coalition, is to expose their naked audacity, in demanding the presidential candidacy? And not contented with their most outrageous demands, they are to then make the argument for a presidential selection process, informed by some still to be defined scientific data. Therefore, confronted with such political opportunism, the germane enquiry is, why a similar science driven process isn’t being suggested for the prime ministerial position?
So, having examined to expose AFC, we are compelled to similarly scrutinise the PNC, a political party that seems irrevocably positioned in fool’s paradise. For this is the reality confronting PNC, they as the major political entity in APNU, would find it a Herculean challenge defeating the unpopular incumbent in PPP. And considering this reality, of a PPP mired in governmental controversies, the irrefutable conclusion is, APNU and AFC must contest this election as a coalition. But achieving such, not unrealistic as it may appears, means PNC has to take their heads, and other anatomy, out of the proverbial sand. Which means, considering they are without a vote amassing LFSB type transformational leader, the party is obligated, for its very survival, to make political compromise.
Having said that, from the perused international evidence, we are under no illusions as it pertains to the challenges of coalition politics. However, this is our reality, and inescapably of future generations, the political party in PPP, isn’t only painfully discriminatory but also shamelessly corruptible.
For the damning evidence, we need not look long and hard, with the innumerable collapsing bridges and pervasive pothole roads. But if they were any doubts about the nature of this kleptocracy, the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index score of 39 out of 100, paints a picture of corruption on the grandest scale.
In fact, even as we painfully examined corruption under this installed government, it would be unforgivably remiss not to bring to the fore their acts of discrimination. For such acts, as excruciating as is recent, evidence Success our ancestral land, that was intentionally flooded with high-powered water pumps, demolishing homes, lives and livestock.
But such barbarism is hardly surprising, considering PPP, a party of dastardly deeds, would employ bulldozers and other heavy machinery to annihilate Mocha, another of our ancestral lands, even as they venture to bury any who stand to protest. However, these exemplars, making the most difficult of readings, represent only two, in a litany of PPP discriminations against Afro-Guyanese.
Thus, considering this installed government’s history of discrimination, victimisation, corruption, and extrajudicial killings, one would’ve thought PNC and AFC, placing the long-suffering masses first, would’ve negotiated in a spirit of compromise. However, it would appear, based on evidence in the printed media, that both parties, not prepared to position the discriminated many paramount, are negotiating with superinflated egos. And with such superinflated egos guiding their negotiations, mean the fight over presidency, positions and politics would gift us the people, five more years of persecutions.
