The Murray/Greenidge Support Group yesterday said that it will remain engaged in the political process both with respect to the PNC and the national situation and that unity of the party will be given the highest priority.
In a press release, the group thanked PNC members for their support, which ensured an excellent showing of the party’s candidate Carl Greenidge. Greenidge lost the presidential nomination to David Granger by just 15 points. The group extended gratitude to all of the Guyanese who took time to share their views and opinions and offer suggestions to Greenidge during his visits to different regions.
In his address at the just concluded ‘Special Delegates Congress’, the group said, Greenidge restated his pledge to work to strengthen the unity of the party “to help fashion a superior weapon capable of taking on the PPP, and to bring an end to the nightmare to which the country has been subjected.” The pursuit of this goal, the group said, will be its watchword. To this end, Greenidge pledged the group’s support to the party as it maps out its strategy for national and regional elections.
The Murray/Greenidge Group was created out of a concern that there was a clear need to deepen the democratic nature of the party, the release said.
“We felt passionately and we still do that changing the political culture of the party would strengthen it electorally by making [it] attractive to a wide cross section of the Guyanese people,” the release said. “Building such a culture cannot occur as a result of one politicalevent or occasion. It is a process and while the election of a presidential candidate advanced the democratic agenda of the PNCR, there can be no doubt that that much more remains to be done. Accordingly our group will be considering ways and means by which democracy can be enhanced in the PNCR on a sustainable basis.”
The next steps, the group said, would see Greenidge paying particular attention to issues identified by the party and others which are of interest to the group. In this regard it will focus, it said, on ensuring that persons who have not registered with Gecom do so during the claims and objections period scheduled to run from April 2 to May 12.
The group also plans to support the “big tent” coalition of opposition political parties and civil society to present a united front at the upcoming polls as this could be a major plank in defeating the PPP/C.
