Former President Donald Ramotar has stated that while neither he nor the PPP/C’s Prime Ministerial Candidate, Elisabeth Harper will be representing the party in the National Assembly, the list is indicative of the party’s move to transition to younger leadership.
At a press briefing at Freedom House yesterday, Ramotar stated that he felt an explanation was owed to the members of the media. He said “it was my personal view that the party should go into transition at this point in time and to go to transition to younger leaders to take us to future successes in the party.”
“I thought the party should have chosen a leader from among this generation of people, generally, the leadership of the party after thorough discussions they agreed with that position, but after thorough discussion they felt that they needed a kind of transition period to
