In 1992, PPP/C needed backing from another party for parliamentary majority

While the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) won the presidency easily in 1992, it was one seat short of a majority in Parliament and needed one of the two smaller opposition parties to help it to get there.

Whether the PPP/C needed the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) or The United Force (TUF) to give it a majority in the 1992 Parliament was recently raised by several letter writers in the Stabroek News.

The reportage of that period in the pages of Stabroek News showed that after the official results of the historic elections were declared after some delay,