Today I will apply to Guyana relevant lessons gleaned from the international experiences considered last week. The lessons must be considered interrelatedly and unfortunately they serve to demonstrate that perhaps only in form is the APNU+AFC a political coalition. Here I focus on the Alliance for Change (AFC), paying little attention to the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) and smaller parties, for apart from wishful thinking on their part, they have long merged with the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) to become the APNU. Those parties do not have any demonstrable electoral support, there is no coalition agreement between them and there is only the occasional whimper from the WPA when public concern is raised about the government’s behaviour. But even that party has become complicit in the diminution of its sacred leadership icons and historical ideological assumptions without its being able to do much more than gesticulate. The regime does not now even care about the positive electoral ambience the WPA brought to the table. After all, Dr. David Hinds remained the lone voice, regularly contributing to maintaining a smattering of that quality and attempts are now been made to stifle even that!
