The present political impasse has yet again presented opposition leader Bharrat Jagdeo and the PPP/C with an opportunity to reposition the party as a positive national rather than communal institution. With hindsight, the decision-making space was too close, i.e. the party was still smarting from its loss of Parliament and the diminution of its ethnic political positioning to properly assess and take the opportunity its 2011 loss presented for it to contribute to an historic realignment of Guyanese politics. Instead, they chose to go it alone and the country was as divided as ever when they were finally forced from government in 2015. That electoral bruising should have healed by now and it would constitute a severe deficit of leadership if Mr. Jagdeo has not yet come to understand that his party needs to present the country 
with a more progressive vision and programme.
Mr. Jagdeo’s call for radical mobilisation and non-cooperation over the president’s unilateral selection of the chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission is understandable. However, to be successful, such an approach requires more than globetrotting and parroting Cheddi Jagan’s old mantra of democracy and majority
