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Corbin seeks executive post in PNCR
…says will not “abandon ship”
PNCR Leader Robert Corbin
Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Robert Corbin will shortly be looking to secure a position on the party’s Central Executive Committee.
Corbin has already indicated that come July 29, when the party hosts its elections for the post of leader he will not contest, but this week he reminded that he is not “abandoning ship.”
Corbin made the revelation this past week as A Partnership for National Unity marked its one year anniversary.
The PNCR forms the largest bloc of APNU, and is slated to hold its Biennial Congress from July 26 to July 29, where internal elections will be held for the position of leader and the executive posts.
Corbin explained to a section of the media corps that “The roles of Leader and Member of Central Executive Committee are different.”
He was adamant that he did not want to convey the impression that “I was abandoning my commitment to the PNCR.”
Corbin said that he also wanted it to be known that he is not abandoning “the struggle for the liberation of the struggling masses of this country.”
He sought to explain that his departure from the leadership of the PNCR, “or not running for high electoral office does not mean that one does not have a role to play in the struggle for change in Guyana or that would be a tragedy…I don’t want it to be felt that I am abandoning ship.”
Corbin assumed leadership of the party following the death of Hugh Desmond Hoyte.
Corbin was born in Linden, and worked for the Youth Ministry of the Presbyterian Church before being educated in social work and law at the University of Guyana and the Hugh Wooding Law School.
He worked as a social worker from 1966 to 1977 and during this time joined the PNC youth arm, the Young Socialist Movement before taking up a seat on the party’s Central Executive Committee.
Corbin, who was first elected to the National Assembly of Guyana in 1973, became one of the leading lights in the PNC, serving the party as Senior Vice Chairman and General Secretary, as well as holding a number of government ministries, including the office of Deputy Prime Minister from 1985 to 1992.
He was elected PNC chairman in 2000 and retained the role in 2002.
Corbin was chosen to lead the party in 2003 following the death of Desmond Hoyte.
A defeat for the PNC in the 2006 legislative elections saw Corbin’s leadership come under scrutiny and he has survived at least two serious challenges to his post of leader.
Corbin, who is married and a father of five, continues to practice as an Attorney-at-Law.
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