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Freddie Kissoon and political culture
Dear Editor,
Freddie Kissoon, in his article “Who is the next PPP presidential candidate,’’ said that the political culture in the USA is superior to that of Guyana. How he comes to that conclusion is a matter of his opinion.
All political parties in the world have some kind of differences in selecting their Presidential or Prime Ministerial candidates.
In India, last election, Sonia Gandhi chose the Prime Minister after the election; but most political parties choose their leader of the party for their candidate.
In the USA, most times the candidate who raises the most funds becomes the Presidential candidate of their party, and all of them are from either the Republican or the Democratic Party.
These two parties’ differences are just like a smoke screen, and a party headed by the consumer advocate Mr. Nader cannot raise enough money to have even one television advertisement.
All his workers are volunteers, mostly university students. Although they say that the United States is the most democratic country in the world, yet the ordinary man cannot make it to the top position because, for a man to have democracy in the United States, he has to buy it.
During the primary, all the candidates criticise each others’ policies, and when they choose their Presidential candidate they all start to praise his policy.
What is more hypocritical than that?
In Guyana anyone can be a Presidential candidate.
Like all political parties, the PPP has it own ways of selecting its candidate, and it is unfair to criticise the way the party chooses its candidate.
Kissoon is not a member of the party but yet he thinks he knows the party to be opportunistic.
All members of the executive grew up with the party since they were kids, and they all know how the party chooses its candidate, so what Kissoon is saying doesn’t have a base.
The population of the United States is over three hundred million, and they have only two major political parties and two independent candidates; while Guyana, with about three-quarters of a million people, has over 12 political parties.
If we are to take the policies of the two political parties of the USA, we will find that their policies are almost the same, so we can come to the conclusion that there is only one political party.
The amount of people that turn out to vote in the United States is about fifty percent, and the winning party wins by less than one percent.
Therefore, we can say that the president is elected by 25 percent of the electorate.
Mr. Kissoon, is that a minority government or an elected dictatorship?
Jagessar Sukhraj
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