Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo has denied a statement in a USAID report that the APNU+AFC coalition government had proposed a unity government that was rejected by the People’s Progressive Party (PPP).
At a press conference at Freedom House on Wednesday, Jagdeo said that there had been no “formal proposal about power sharing or anything of that sort.”
According to the March, 2016 report, ‘Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance (DRG) Assessment of Guyana’, the multi-ethnic APNU+AFC coalition signalled a change from the past exclusionary politics. It reached out to the PPP/C to create a government of national unity, but the PPP/C refused. Some thought the coalition had not tried hard enough to convince the PPP/C to join, but the PPP/C told the assessment team that the APNU+AFC had “won the election so let them run the government,” the report said.
