The infighting within the PNCR and its leadership’s failure to verify the party’s voters list before its Biennial Congress in 2007 led then US Ambassador to Guyana, David Robinson, to conclude that the party was in a steady state of decline and that the PPP was Guyana’s only viable political party.
It was to no one’s surprise that the PNCR decided to hold their leadership elections despite the “serious questions about the veracity of their membership list. This raises troubling questions,” said Robinson in a cable to Washington at the time. The diplomatic cable was part of a trove released by the whistle-blowing site, Wikileaks, last week.
“First, it is a sign that the PNCR may be heading back to its ‘bad old days’ of dirty politics and rigged elections. Second, and more troubling, is that their recent congress shows a party that is
