Jagdeo sees PPP securing significantly more votes from Indigenous communities

Aug 16, 2025 News

Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo

Kaieteur News – The Peoples Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) believes that support from Indigenous communities will allow the party to secure more votes than it did in 2020.

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo expressed confidence at his weekly Thursday press conference that Indigenous communities will vote overwhelmingly for his party.

Jagdeo, who is also the general secretary of the PPP/C in response to questions posed by reporters on whether his party can win the upcoming September 1, 2025 general and regional elections without the support of the indigenous communities said, “we believe we can win the elections based on the support that [the indigenous communities give] and win the elections with a bigger majority than 2020, with a significantly bigger majority than 2020 with the support of the Amerindians, the Indo-Guyanese, the mixed people and Afro-Guyanese and we going to do that.”

Notwithstanding, Jagdeo clarified that his party does not need 100 per cent of the votes from the Indigenous communities to be successful at the upcoming elections. The PPPC general secretary said his party isn’t threatened by its competitors.

He said rival parties try to frequent the Indigenous communities because they believe that the residents do not have access to the media there. He specifically mentioned presidential candidate for the We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) party, Azruddin Mohamed, who has been frequenting Indigenous communities.

“Pay a few people to lie… about the sanctions and all of these things and he gets away with it. He goes there to avoid scrutiny because he would not campaign here so heavily because he’d run into the media, and then he would have to answer uncomfortable questions,” Jagdeo said.

This week alone, Mohamed visited more than five Indigenous communities as he takes his campaign across the country.

The PPP/C leader said his party secured 57% of the votes in Region 9 with the remaining 43% of the votes being divided among the other parties in the 2020 elections. He suggested that the 43% that voted for the other parties five years ago may very well vote for WIN or A Partnership for National Unity (APNU).

“We didn’t win 99% of Region 9… so that any vote that goes to another party will come at the expense of the PPP. We won 57% of the votes there in the last elections. We’re hoping to increase that percentage there,” Jagdeo noted.

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