The PPP has been cooperative; Coalition still playing games

Mar 17, 2019 Letters

Dear Editor,

As the Coalition rushes towards illegality in a few days, Granger who refuses to hold regular press conferences, takes to the air and calls for “cooperation,” and says the current political situation should not cause “alarm or anxiety.” Granger’s government was defeated and he refused to hold elections in 90 days! Is Granger living in a parallel universe? Does Mr. Granger have so much contempt for the PPP and the nation, which he thinks his Plenary can illegally occupy power and the Opposition should just roll over and be trampled upon? Mr. Jagdeo said the PNC should be “chased out” after March 21, but most people in their own Guyanese way say they should be “kicked out,” given their history.
In the 2015 campaign, the PPP warned that “Granger is danger,” and in barely three years, the Coalition proved that to be correct. After fighting for the restoration of democracy stolen by the PNC for 28 years in its first stint, we are back to having to wrest power from the Coalition. The PNC has shown that once it gets into power, it will not get out. At Vreed-en-Hoop, Granger, who thinks the Chief Justice’s ruling is her mere opinions and perceptions, told his supporters we ‘ain’t’ going anywhere. This should send fears through the spines of all Guyanese, given the PNC’s sordid history of rigging, and its penchant for summoning its machinery to stay in power, or get power.
Everything the Coalition has done so far is about maximum administrative delay (MAD), not rushing to comply with the 90-days mandate of the constitution. Granger has not set a date to meet the 90-day election requirement; GECOM has been twiddling its thumbs; GECOM says it is waiting on the President for a date, while Granger says he is waiting on GECOM. Mr. Jagdeo, in great magnanimity and in the national interest, graciously met twice with Granger, but as we are in the midnight hour before the PNC becomes an illegal government, Granger has not cooperated to meet the 90-day mandate of elections required in the emergency setting of the no-confidence motion.

While the Chief Magistrate throws out the lawsuit that the three PNC GECOM Commissioners have conspired to breach Guyana’s Constitution, the Coalition has brought in a foreigner, at a very great expense to Guyana taxpayers, to argue that 33 is not greater than 32 – and that’s not a frivolous lawsuit!!!
The PPP must do all it can to remove the illegal government after March 21. I hope the ABC countries and EU would stop playing games too, and make a clear statement that the Coalition has once again violated the Constitution. The current problem is a Coalition-created problem. You cannot blame the PPP.

Sincerely,
Jerry Singh

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