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AFC annihilated in Prime Minister’s hometown Whim/Bloomfield

Nov 14, 2018 News

–poor performances in other areas

In a strongly contested Local Authority Area (Whim/Bloomfield) by the Peoples Progressive Party/Civic and the Alliance for Change there was a major upset after votes were tallied up and SOP’s were posted throughout the seven constituencies for this year’s Local Government Elections.
Widely known as the Prime Minister’s hometown which he spoke about on many occasions, saw persons voting in favor of the opposition leading them to a clear win in all seven constituencies they contested.
The AFC who also contested the seven during their campaign exuded confidence in the people of that Local Authority Area and had boasted that it would be a “clear win”.
However, residents did quite the opposite. That area was also at the center of attention recently after the PPP/C filed legal action against GECOM over an alleged fraudulent LGE list. Former AFC A-Lister Veersammy Ramayya was seen busy gathering persons to vote; he campaigned for the PPP/C.
Notably, Mavis Nagamootoo, the PM’s sister-in-law who contested against PPP/C Sursatee Ishmael in Constituency 7 (Whim North East and South) only managed to scrape 31 votes as against Ishmael’s 216. Prime Minister’s representative in Berbice, Gobin Harbhajan, had particularly worked with Mavis in that area to gain grounds among the people but “still came up empty”, he said.
New Areas
Additionally, for the first time in Local Government Elections the Plegt Anker/Kortbraadt (Four constituencies) and Caracas/Wyburg (three constituencies) residents were given an opportunity to exercise their rights to vote. Constituencies in those two local authority areas saw wins for both APNU and PPP/C. The AFC did not contest those areas.
There was a tie with APNU and PPP/C in the Bushlot/Adventure Local Authority Area along with another tie with the two at Macedonia/Joppa local authority area.
There was great success in New Amsterdam for APNU with PPP/C following and the AFC coming in third with very low votes. Reports coming out from Black Bush Polder are also showing wins for the PPP/C along with Corriverton, Crabwood Creek/Moleson Creek and Number 52- Number 74.
Reports also coming out from Rose Hall Town indicates that there was an overall win by the PPP/C. The same result was reported for Kilcoy/Hampshire, Port Mourant/John’s.

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