Executive member of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) Dr Rupert Roopnaraine yesterday maintained that any declaration coming from the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on the March 2 elections should be respected.
“If the PPP won… the elections commission should make a declaration and once they make a declaration of course it should be respected. We have to get past all that and recognize that we owe the country responsible leadership. There is enough to do in Guyana,” Roopnaraine said during an interview with E-Networks’ Newsroom.
Speaking on the 40th anniversary of the death of his party’s co-founder, Walter Rodney, Roopnaraine said the he was still convinced that the then People’s National Congress government was responsible for Rodney’s death.
He also noted that if Rodney were alive today he would deplore the lack of empowerment of ordinary people and the condition of the villages within Guyana. “He was very passionate about the village development and racial healing. To a large extent we have attempted to keep those aspects of his thinking in our own day to day practice,” he said.
