Goolsarran condemns AFC for becoming ‘rubber stamp’

Former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran has berated the Alliance For Change (AFC) for failing to hold its coalition partner APNU to account and for becoming a “rubber stamp”.

In his accountability column in today’s Stabroek News, Goolsarran discussed traditional voting patterns and third party politics but lamented that AFC had been sidelined by A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and had not asserted itself.

“There were signs that this pattern of voting was changing when the Alliance For Change (AFC) came on board, especially for the 2011 and 2015 elections.