Cummingsburg Accord will remain in place, unmodified, for now- Greenidge

Nov 18, 2018 News

Neither the Alliance For Change (AFC) nor A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) is concerning themselves currently with pushing for the review of the Cummingsburg Accord.
At a recent press conference, APNU member, Carl Greenidge, who was the partnership’s point man for the negotiation of the Accord, said that that the agreement is working well and they do not foresee any immediate efforts to modify it.
The Cummingsburg Accord is the agreement that governs APNU and AFC existence at the helm of Guyana.
The AFC entered the recently concluded Local Government Election (LGE) independently.
Now that the polls are over, the AFC sought to affirm on Friday that it is still unwaveringly committed to the coalition and will be contesting the General and Regional Elections just as it did in 2015.
Minister of Public Security, AFC’s Khemraj Ramjattan, told the media that the results of LGE show that that party he co-founded maintains its status as a force to be reckoned with.
Prime Minister, AFC’s Moses Nagamootoo, echoed the sentiments of his colleague. Nagamootoo said, “You cannot mess with figures”. He said that the figures show that the AFC has maintained 10 percent of the votes. He said that even if it went down to as low as one percent of the votes, it would still be needed as that one percent, along with the APNU, is enough to keep the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) out of power.
Greenidge said, “This was an approach to governance in its entirety that was crafted with all of the relevant parties of the coalition. As far as I can recall, it is a formula with the longest longevity of any formula that has been crafted.
“That means that the parties organized to fashion the formula. At this point in time, that formula has worked. There is no signal at this point in time, from the parties that there is an intention to change.”
Nevertheless, Greenidge said that there is the capacity, “once the parties believe that the formula can be improved, they can always call on each other to sit and look at it again. It is not something cast in stone, recognizing that circumstances change”.

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