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Challenge to maximum leadership – the real victory

Aug 26, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
I seldom write the newspapers letters columns, unless an issue seriously attracts me, but I choose to do so now.
I was a delegate at the 16th Biennial Congress of the PNCR, without a doubt the second most powerful political party in Guyana. I dare say as a practicing Christian I was a solution and not a problem at that congress.
I feel the leadership contest between Mr. Robert Corbin and Mr. Winston Sunilall Murray was a victory against the maximum leadership practice in third world countries, which evidently simply does not apply in these times.
Despite the failures of the accreditation process, which perhaps were deliberate or mistakenly done, there are great reasons for optimism for the future. Mr. R. H. O. Corbin won convincingly with 73% of the votes counted, that’s a wide margin, while Mr. Murray was still able to secure a credible 27% of the votes counted.
To my mind Mr. Murray’s support, was a massive victory against the failed practice of maximum leadership. It also answered a number of the issues raised at congress arising out of the Leader and General Secretary’s addresses and the unexplainable massive campaigning and intimidation in support for the incumbent leader at congress.
In the past, challengers for the leadership position of the PNC either pulled out the race or fought meekly. This was a challenge which was put together in a very short time that to my mind was also a victory in itself.
Ivelaw Henry

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