The Working Peoples Alliance (WPA) yesterday called for a more vigorous campaign by the opposition against the suspension of parliament, cautioning that momentum is being lost. “What is evident is that there is urgent need for the opposition to communicate to the Guyanese public an Action Plan or Road Map for making the Government so uncomfortable that it would be forced to relent and reconvene Parliament any time soon,” the WPA said in a statement yesterday. The WPA is a member of the opposition coalition A Partnership of National Unity (APNU) but at times, its views have differed from those of the coalition on actions taken.
In its statement, the WPA said that the party strongly favours a more vigorous campaign by the opposition against the prolongation of the proroguing of Parliament. “Since the prorogue proclamation on November 10, the reaction of the Opposition, besides expressions of outrage at the absurdity of a minority Executive President dismissing the Parliament (in which the Opposition has a majority), the rape of democracy and the instituting of dictatorship, has focused on: writing letters of complaint to regional bodies and international agencies, meeting with locally based diplomats and civil society organisations,
