The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on Saturday once again defended its former partnership with the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), saying that it was in keeping with Walter Rodney’s national reconciliation agenda.
On the eve of the 41st death anniversary of party leader Rodney, the WPA addressed the issue, which it said has been used to put a wedge between the party and Rodney’s legacy. “We must remind the nation that foremost on Rodney’s agenda was national reconciliation in the form of a national government. For him, there could be no democratic solution outside national unity and reconciliation. His contribution to crafting WPA’s Government of National Unity and Reconstruction in 1979 has already been acknowledged. What is not so well known is his acceptance that a PNC that embraces free and fair elections as normative and eschews dictatorship must be part of Guyana’s political solution,” the party said in a statement.
