Former Foreign Trade Minister in the PPP/C government Dr Henry Jeffrey has endorsed opposition coalition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) saying that this is the grouping that comes closest to his demand for radical constitutional change that would lead to shared governance.
Jeffrey has endorsed the party in his weekly column which is published in today’s edition of the Stabroek News. “Given my political stand, I must support the APNU because of all the parties, it comes closest to my demand for radical constitutional change to introduce a more equitable and participative governance arrangement,” he says. Further, he says that the party has a good chance of preventing the PPP/C from gaining fifty percent of the votes cast if it is able to: “turn out every single traditional voter of its constituent parties; win significant quantities of Amerindian votes and strategically monitor every single polling place from the beginning to the very end of the election day process”.
According to Jeffrey, the Westminster form of governance is “insufficient” for ruling Guyana. “It is not that our parliament is useless; it simply was not designed to deliver the kind of
