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PPP to name PM candidate in Linden Sunday
Donald Ramotar will announce his running mate this Sunday at a rally in Linden. The incumbent People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) is also contending that this rally will be “significant.”
The PPP has customarily had a team headlining its elections campaign, but this time around, its supporters have had to wait the wait and dabble in speculation, with outgoing President Bharrat Jagdeo anchoring Ramotar along the campaign trail thus far.
It was almost a foregone conclusion that Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, who has occupied that position for the most part since 1992, would not be heading the Civic slate again.
Will Samuel Hinds return at the PPP/C’s PM Candidate?
But yesterday, Robert Persaud, one of the PPP’s campaign directors, refused to deny or confirm that Hinds had made himself available. Persaud also did not get into details about the process that was used to select the Prime Ministerial candidate.
Early after he was announced Presidential Candidate, Ramotar seemed to have favoured having a woman candidate stand behind him.
Months have passed since Ramotar was identified as Presidential Candidate, and the re-election campaign is well along to the November 28 polls.
Ramotar, a career politician with a degree in economics, has been hitting the campaign trail with Jagdeo by his side.
The PPP, under Dr Cheddi Jagan, formed the Civic alliance. He then picked Hinds to ensure victory at the October 5, 1992 elections that were hailed as the return of democracy to Guyana.
The formula of choosing a Presidential Candidate from the PPP and a Prime Ministerial Candidate from the Civic arm continue for the elections of 1997, 2001 and 2006.
Ramotar himself had said that the alliance had matured to the point where that formula could very well be set aside to contest these elections, but there is no clear indication that that was done in this case.
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