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No atmosphere of trust between PPP, PNCR

May 17, 2008 News

– President Jagdeo

Opposition Leader Robert Corbin’s time would be better spent if he uses it to educate his supporters about the real nature of the increase in the price of food, Donald Ramotar said yesterday.
According to the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary, a responsible opposition party would be trying to assist in establishing greater unity in the light of the threats from outside.
He noted that a good place for the Opposition Leader to start is to support the efforts and measures taken by the government to cushion the shocks of rising food cost, particularly to the most vulnerable in the society.

The escalation in prices has nothing to do with any action or inaction of the government, he stated, noting that the problem is directly connected to the increase in fuel prices, which has moved dramatically in a short period of time.

Instead, he added, the PNCR ‘opportunistically’ decided to protest and in the process they have been encouraging lawlessness.

“Their protesters have broken down barriers and illegally went into areas where they did not have permission to march. At the same time that party has resorted to the use of lies to instigate their supporters.”

Speaking about the recent claim by Corbin that the PPP leadership had instructed police to shoot at protesters, Ramotar said that this is “absolutely untrue”.

This claim, he said, was clearly designed to instigate the “less informed and gullible” to attack the police and the PPP.

“The leader of the PNCR should stop making false accusations and behave in a responsible manner.”
And at a press briefing about the PNC’s recent protest actions, President Bharrat Jagdeo said that he is hoping that the ‘protest phase’ will end.

Unfortunately, he said, he and the Opposition Leader have not met for quite a while.
“I do hope that when sense returns and sanity prevails, we will continue the engagements we had.”
He added that past engagements between himself and Corbin were very productive.

“It is good to build a civilized political culture…if the President and the Opposition Leader can meet time and again to address the people’s problems. So I hope that we could continue to build that political culture, where although we have differences we can address them in a civilized manner,” the Head of State added.
The PNC, the President said, has always argued for power sharing at the levels of the Executive and he in turn has always stated that for any arrangement to work at the level of the Executive it would require ‘trust’ existing between the two parties.
“Unfortunately now we do not have an atmosphere of trust.”
According to President Jagdeo, there is need to build a track record of working together to build trusting relationships between the parties.
He noted that these relationships may evolve to more formal institutionalized ways of cooperating.

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