PPP ensuring separation of party, state funds – Persaud

Robert Persaud

PPP campaign spokesman Robert Persaud yesterday assured that the ruling would maintain a separation between its own funds and state resources in the elections period.

“…We will continue to separate between party activities and the use of state resources,” Persaud told a briefing at Freedom House. He was at the time responding to concerns about the ruling party’s alleged “abuse” of state resources to fund its elections campaign raised by opposition coalition APNU spokesman Dr Rupert Roopnaraine last week.

Last Thursday, Roopnaraine noted that APNU planned to approach the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) to voice its concerns over elections financing and the abuse of state funds by