Harper signals exit from politics after declining to be PPP/C MP

Elisabeth Harper

Mere months after her entry into active politics, it appears as if former PPP/C prime ministerial candidate Elisabeth Harper is making a hasty retreat as her name was not on the list of 32 names released yesterday by the PPP/C to take up its Parliament seats.

Harper, the former Director General of the Foreign Affairs Ministry, was reported by online news site News Source as saying that while the PPP/C approached her to be one of its 32 members in the National Assembly, she declined.

Stabroek News attempted to make contact with Harper for over a week on the report but when she was