While the PPP’s delay in naming its MPs for the 11th Parliament gels with its continuing claims that the May 11th elections were rigged it is also giving it breathing room to deal with internal divisions on the way ahead and to determine who will lead it – former Presidents Donald Ramotar and Bharrat Jagdeo or someone entirely new.
Analysts say a range of views have been promulgated – as evidenced by an email from one of its MPs in the last Parliament to colleagues – on how the party should proceed on its loss of power for the first time since 1992.
Having gained no support outside of the party for its claim that the general election was rigged, the 65-year-old PPP is seen as facing a serious internal dilemma
