Democracy in Guyana is equated with voting and so after elections people go back to their lives without realising the vote was just the beginning.
This culture of accepting electoral democracy as democracy has serious implications and its practice in Guyana has come to mean “Elite rule,” which requires us citizens to be relatively passive, uninvolved and deferential to the elites who govern our country. Elite rule, in the sense that power is increasingly centralised in a small clique; a party of privileged folks whose actions are more monarchic than democratic.
This kind of leadership was allowed to take root in our nation because we vote and lose interest; because we transfer the
