To many people’s surprise The United Force (TUF) announced earlier this year that it would contest the 2011 general elections. Up until the announcement the general feeling among the electorate was that the party’s best moments were behind it, that its time had come and gone.
TUF first contested general elections in Guyana in 1964 when it received just over 12 per cent of the vote and won seven seats in the National Assembly, becoming the junior partner in coalition government with the People’s National Congress. (PNC) TUF contested general elections again in 1968 at which time its vote slipped to 7.4 per cent and the
