When the 10th Parliament of Guyana is convened later this month, the first challenge for the hung parliament would be the selection of the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly.
Opposition coalition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change (AFC) together clinched 33 seats in the 65-seat National Assembly, leaving the PPP/C, which controls the remainder of the seats, the minority. With no single party having a majority, the work of the Parliament will be dependent on compromises by all the parliamentary parties, beginning with the selection of the Speaker and Deputy Speaker, which will require consensus.
Article 56 (1) of the constitution
