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GPP calls for fixed elections date

Dec 13, 2010 News

The Guyana’s People’s Partnership (GPP) has issued a call for a fixed election date every five years and not at the whim of the ruling party.
“Each citizen will then know on the 15th of August that every five years will be general elections.”
According to the GPP, the ruling PPP/C has abused its flexibility in failing to schedule an election date and using state funds for cabinet outreach (buying votes) prior to announcing the date of general elections.
The party said that the practice is an abuse of power in the absence of systemic procedures.
It added that Region 10 has been neglected for almost two decades under the ruling party and the government finally announced for 2011 a massive road and drainage project in an attempt to hoodwink the citizens.
“The GPP is concerned that the PPP/C is working on plans to delay the elections due for 2011, according to the Constitution, in order to give the President an additional two years, according to senior advisers in the Jagdeo administration.”
The GPP claims that the President will keep his word on no third term, but push for voting rights for overseas based Guyanese to delay GEOCOM preparations for the elections due by August 2011.
The GPP is contending that “The government abuses its power by using taxpayer’s money for cabinet outreaches during the election cycle.”
It is this barefaced use of taxpayers’ funds the Party said, which is partly responsible for the tax burden on Guyanese already at $54.00 out of every taxable $100, plus the “Vampire Around the Throats” (VAT) which citizens also have to fork out when they make purchases.
The party says that a scheduled election cycle is therefore one of the items which the GPP wants on the constitutional reform agenda for the unity government which should replace the PPP/C in 2011.
“Let us all use PPP/C government abuse of taxpayers as a rallying cry for building a coalition to get them out of power in the next elections…We must pay close attention to the process to counter PPP/Jagdeo trickery.”

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