Talks between governing coalition partners APNU and the AFC for a 2020 elections pact have stalled over the former’s apparent unwillingness to accept the latter’s nominee for the post of prime minister, posing the most serious threat yet to the Cummingsburg Accord which led to the removal of the PPP/C in the 2015 polls.
As a consequence, the Alliance For Change (AFC) who have refused to compromise on its nomination of its Leader, Khemraj Ramjattan will spend its National Executive Committee meeting on November 2nd deciding “on its mode of participation in the upcoming General and Regional Elections.”
Speaking at press conference yesterday, AFC Executive Dominic Gaskin said that the naming of the Presidential and PM candidates by A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and AFC respectively remains a “fundamental and non-negotiable tenet” of the coalition.
