| PPP open to power-sharing with partners it could trust |
| Friday, 13 August 2010 | |
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- Donald Ramotar General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party Donald Ramotar said that his party has, since 2003, been open to power-sharing as it relates to governing the country, but he emphasized that it is the lack of trust which has caused this to never become a reality. Ramotar explained that the PPP can only partner with political parties that it could trust, and the opposition have consistently said as well as done different things, consequently, the PPP did not partner with them. He said that it would be to the detriment of the nation should his party place power in the hands of people who would abuse it. Ramotar was at the time responding to statements made by Executive Member of the Working People’s Alliance Dr David Hinds who at a recent forum on coalition opined that the ideal situation would be power-sharing. Dr. Hinds was also adamant that the exclusion of the People’s Progressive Party was not an option, in that they must play a role in the country moving forward. Ramotar said that ever since 2003, he and President Jagdeo had presented a booklet at State House during a press meet and had outlined their ideas on power-sharing. Following the outcome of the 2006 elections, People’s National Congress Reform Leader, Robert Corbin, had repeated the call for power-sharing. Corbin said the election results “proved to be an ethnic census” in that the PNC gets its main support from the country’s African descendants while the ruling PPP is dominated by Guyanese of East Indian descent. The PPP received alomst 55 percent of the votes from the August 28 election, picking up two additional seats in parliament. The PNC won 34 percent of the vote, losing six parliamentary seats, while another opposition party, the Alliance For Change, won five seats. ****************************** |
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