The Alliance For Change’s (AFC) leader Raphael Trotman, a former member of the PNCR, is the new Speaker of the National Assembly, an historic first for the opposition in Guyana’s parliamentary history that also saw the position of Deputy Speaker going to APNU’s Deborah Backer.
At yesterday’s first sitting of the National Assembly in the 10th Parliament, members of the ruling PPP/C and the combined Opposition of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance for Change (AFC) held their respective party’s lines in the contest.
In the end, it turned out to be a numbers game, with the majority of the combined Opposition prevailing over the
