ACDA’s logic is seriously misleading

Apr 27, 2011 Letters

Dear Editor
Elections are important because it is the people that speak at election. The need for shared governance, in the context of Guyana, is often looked at from a race point of view. The general election is the only mechanisms through which the people select their representation.
If the general elections are abandoned, and all the parties agree to form a new government, this country will face a political gridlock, and the decision making will be thwarted in all directions. There will be no smooth management of this country.
Power sharing will never work, simply because all the presidential candidates want to be the president, and this cannot happen. From the futile attempts at forming a coalition party, the most recent being the Joint Opposition Political Parties (JOPP), it is clear that this is no solution.
The ACDA people are of the belief that Guyanese vote for their parties on the basis of race. Based on their own assumption, I will logically deduce that they will never win an election. The arithmetic of Guyana’s demographics supports ACDA’s position. ACDA’s insistence on power sharing testifies to this.
They are aware that if as they claim, people only vote on the basis on race, then the PPP will win the next election, since the last census report confirmed that there is a greater number of Indians to Africans in Guyana.
Can ACDA show that its assumption that people only vote based on race is true? And what is the basis for determining whether an individual’s vote is made on the grounds of race? We cannot logically or correctly deduce that persons are inherently racially biased in their vote to a political party that reflects their ethnic grouping.
This was the basis for Tacuma Ogunseye’s ‘riot act’. What constituency does Ogunseye’s have? Is ACDA supported by a large portion of this nation’s citizenry? Will securing political office through back-door entry help to foster political or social progress in Guyana?
As ridiculous as this accusation of race voting is, they insist upon it. Therefore, I must ask that they prove it. They are making this assumption; so surely, they can provide the evidence which proves that this is indeed the case.
I am not aware that ACDA has an official political party, but I can assume that since the PNC is Guyana’s alleged ‘black’ party, it is this party that ACDA is hoping to incorporate into the political office through power sharing.
I think that it is a serious error to conclude that ethnicity is the sole determinant for voting choice. There are variables other than ethnicity that determine a person’s voting choice. So, I will add that ACDA’s logic is seriously misleading.
Lancelot Hughes.

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