Majority won’t vote for the PPP/C-poll suggests

A poll of over 1,500 Guyanese last year suggests that almost 50% will vote against the incumbent Donald Ramotar administration at the upcoming May 11th polls.

According to the survey done last year for the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP), the largest bloc of respondents, 46.1%, said they would vote for a party other than the incumbent PPP/C in a future election, while 33.9% indicated a preference for the PPP/C and 18.3% said that they would not vote. Another 1.7% said they would deliberately spoil their ballots.

Economist Dr Tarron Khemraj reported the finding in his ‘Development Watch’ column published in Wednesday’s Stabroek News. Khemraj