Opposition financially ready for elections

Sep 28, 2014 News

With the no-confidence motion debate drawing closer, both parliamentary oppositional parties have expressed readiness

APNU Leader,
David Granger

to contest elections and are already equipped with the necessary funding to do so.
At its press conference on Friday, the Alliance For Change said that it is most definitely ready.
The Party’s Leader told the media that it is almost by necessity that the AFC will have to contest elections. He added, “We may not have the bounty the PPP would have but we will have enough money to run a campaign sufficient to win a majority in my view.”
AFC Member of Parliament, Cathy Hughes told the media that she is confident that the AFC doesn’t need to do much work to win the votes of right thinking Guyanese.
She said, “We can have elections at midnight tonight we don’t need a campaign. The people of Guyana have lived and experienced everything since the last election to now and the people of Guyana are intelligent enough to know what they experienced and to go and vote wisely.”
Also, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) said that it is ready as well. The coalition’s leader, Brig. David Granger, told Kaieteur News that it has already started its Local Government Election campaign and would also be ready for General Elections pending the eventualities of the upcoming No-Confidence Motion which it is fully prepared to support.
He said that APNU is “financially, emotionally and organizationally ready.”
In early August, the AFC made good on its promise to file a No-Confidence Motion against the Guyana Government which if approved, will force Head of State, President Donald Ramotar to call fresh General Elections.
In a history making moment, the AFC’s General Secretary, David Patterson, accompanied by Treasurer Dominic Gaskin, delivered the Motion to Clerk of the National Assembly, Sherlock Isaacs.
The combined Opposition, which gained a one-seat majority over the PPP government that has been in power for the past 22 years, has expressed repeated disappointment in the administration, for financial impropriety and for failing to adhere to decisions of the National Assembly.