Though the mechanisms of control might be different from the PPP, the PNCR is also a centralist party but change is slowly occurring, according to former party Chairman Vincent Alexander.
In a letter in the Kaieteur News, Alexander, who in 2007 had aborted his candidacy for the post of PNC leader before eventually distancing himself from the party, observed “a striking similarity between the PNCR and the PPP although they are strikingly different political parties.” He had pointed to an APNU column that referred to the PPP’s anachronistic internal structures (anatomy) and its centrist procedures (physiology).
Here, he said, the PNCR, like the PPP, is in a state of somnambulism with regard to its own problem with freedom of expression and democratic election of its leadership. “Imagine the PNCR criticising the PPP for “freedom in discussion – unity in action” (democratic centralism) and ascribing to
