The Opposition Leader got it wrong

Jun 25, 2014 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Opposition Leader David Granger said that he thinks that the PPP is preparing for a snap poll. Mr. Granger has read the vibes wrongly.
Even among the present crop of PPP leaders, there is some serious bad-mouthing of each other. A PPP big wig once said that his party’s problem is that it hasn’t got thinkers the type of which the PPP once had. The wife of a Minister told me that she disapproves of most of the PPP leaders who run Guyana.
This lady told me in Giftland Office Max, “Freddie keep on, writing!” One of the richest farmers in this country was frank enough to tell me that his personal economy is bound up with the rule of the PPP, and he would keep on supporting them, but courageously admitted to me that Guyana needs better leadership.
The child of one of the most powerful dictators in the PPP leadership said that the split in power between the parliament and the presidency after the 2011 general elections is not a bad thing. Of course the split didn’t materialize.
There is no split. The presidency of Guyana is totally in charge, even over the Constitution itself. If there is a split it is a banana split, and other kinds of splits that may not be fit to put in print.
The point is that even in the hierarchy of the PPP there is mounting uncertainty about the future of the PPP in government. And the longer the PPP stays in power, the deeper will be the rut. The PPP is not going to take a chance and curtail two years off its five-year tenure. There is no PPP leader who is willing to gamble with a snap poll.
What Luncheon and Ramotar are doing is bluffing. Here are some factors that have killed off any thought of a snap poll. (1) – The hegemony of the presidency has not been touched since the 2011 election.
Every aspect of state power, state patronage, ethnic favouritism, financial manipulation, political oppression, media abuse, have continued from where Mr. Jagdeo left off. Why cut off two years from your reign when your minority status hasn’t changed anything.
(2) – Time, age, fatigue, loss of mental energy, lack of ideas have caught up with many of the dinosaurs who lived in Freedom House in the seventies
These troglodytes know that at 2016, it would have been twenty-four years they have been in power, hardly achieved anything, despised by the nation and have lost the admiration of the young generation.
They know that they will not be the winning tickets in the 2016 elections, so they will have the two remaining years left of their power. After 2016, they know they are gone.
Gail Teixeira did a Freudian thing the other day that any schoolboy analyst would not fail to miss. In speaking to a magazine, she said that politicians don’t resign, they wait until they are thrown out. The Freudian base of that statement was graphic (see “Lady,” Vol. 1, No. 1, June 2014, page 40).
Which young Indian is going to vote for Sam Hinds, Roger Luncheon, Gail Teixeira, Indra Chandarpal, Komal Chand, Donald Ramotar, Navin Chandarpal, Clement Rohee? Of this bunch, Luncheon is the most realistic. He announced that he is sick and obviously left it up to you to read into that – he is at the end of his career.
(3) – It is because of the existence of the geriatric cabal that there will not be a snap election, because the young Turks have become impertinent and the troglodytes resent their brazenness.
It is the young Turks that are clamouring for early general elections because they feel their time has come and the longer the things in Steven Spielberg’s movie, Jurassic Park, are allowed to roam, the PPP’s survival is threatened.
Has anyone ever explained why Anil Nandlall brought fifth at the last PPP congress but failed to make it into the nerve centre of the PPP – the executive committee? Has anyone put any analysis on why the Chronicle carried a front page lead on Jagdeo being the most popular presidential candidate according to a poll taken?
These are examples of the young Turks at work. Among the PPP leadership and in PPP district committees, the young Turks are in overdrive. The list include Mr. MBA; the lady with the house that cost a million American dollars; the legal man; the cricket bill man; the West Coast swimming pool man; and Mr. Ackee Sing. Finally, Uncle Donald is staying on until 2016. And that is for sure, absolutely sure!

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