Instant political parties: Newcomers and oldsters

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’Tis the Season! To “form a party”! Baby Party, Legal Party, People’s Party. Balance-of-Power Party.

Whether the Coalition – aided and abetted by legal authority – succeeds in staying general elections ‘til  the Jubilee and Oil-and-Gas year of 2020, or not, we Guyanese – interested or indifferent – will experience the phenomenon that is the birth of political parties. Some groupings won’t be transparent enough to deem themselves “parties”. They will be Non-Government (Civic) Organisations (NGO’s) seeking still, to lead, to represent, to influence.

From whence do they come? What is their real motivation? “Long-planned” or sudden? However dissatisfied, disillusioned with the major political behemoths in this land, the electorate must spare many moments to carefully scrutinize, analyse and study the personalities and “policies” of the newcomer groups offering real or perceived alternatives.