The question is really very simple: Will the PPP/C propose inclusive governance in the constitutional reform process that is due to commence this year, as promised in its 2020 Manifesto? This is the question I asked in my article two weeks ago – “Constitutional Reform and the 2023 Budget.” The Attorney General, the Hon. Anil Nandlall, sought to answer the question in a response printed by the SN on 13 February, in the way that lawyers sometimes do – evade the subject by focusing on a tangential issue.
I return to this subject because it is extremely important for the well-being of Guyana and because it has been on the nation’s political agenda for many decades. Indeed, the AG’s party, the PPP, commenced its life as an inclusive movement in 1950. After it was sundered in 1955,
it has consistently sought to return to its inclusive ways, starting with proposals for a coalition government in the early 1960s, then with a national patriotic front in 1977, finally with shared governance or winner does not take all from the late 1980s up to 1991. It has now appeared in the PPP/C’s Manifesto in the modified from of inclusive governance.
