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AFC should brace for major political fallout – Rohee warns

Sep 30, 2014 News

By Abena Rockcliffe
“The AFC should prepare for a major fallout, politically, because I do not get the impression that APNU is moving in the direction of supporting the No-Confidence Motion. And if the APNU withdraws support for the AFC Motion then you know what we heading for.”
General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Clement Rohee, made this comment yesterday at Freedom House as he hosted a PPP press conference.
Rohee seemed almost willing to put his head on the proverbial block that A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) will not be supporting the No-Confidence Motion laid against the government by the Alliance For Change (AFC).
He said that as he monitors what is being reported to him about the public meetings being held by the APNU for the holding of Local Government Elections he has gathered that APNU is hardly interested in General Elections.
“They not pushing for the Motion. I understand that they are saying it is not their Motion, that it is the AFC Motion, so the AFC would have to decide at some point whether it will withdraw or whether it will be pushing for it even in a situation where APNU seems to be looking in another direction,” said Rohee.
He said that the handwriting is on the wall in this regard.
The General Secretary said that PPP supporters are prepared for one election and that would be “whichever one we say we are going for; they will follow us. We can influence our supporters and we can influence beyond our supporters.”
Asked if the PPP would only be contesting one election, Rohee said that he was ignorant of the constitution facilitating the holding of two elections in one year. He said that even though he was not sure, he knows that it has never happened in the history of Guyana.
Therefore, said Rohee, the PPP will just be focusing on one election and will ignore the political gaffs and gimmicks suggesting otherwise.
Rohee told the media that the PPP is prepared for any of the two elections but it would seem that APNU is more geared for Local Government Election rather than General Elections.
Rohee said that the question must be asked, “Why is the AFC pushing for General Elections? Do they hope they would win it?”
In August AFC tabled a No-Confidence Motion which, if passed, would see the premature holding of General Elections.
Before tabling the Motion, AFC equipped itself with the verbal support of APNU but APNU subsequently renewed calls for the holding of Local Government.

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