GUYANA-Opposition parties plotting strategy to deal with runaway ruling party.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana– Opposition political parties met here on Monday to establish a strategy to deal with Guyana’s “political crisis” they said has been caused by the ruling People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C).

“All parties agreed that in response to the escalating political crisis in Guyana under the PPP, they must coordinate and collaborate to conduct a strategic campaign to rescue Guyana, according to a statement issued by the Office of the Leader of the Opposition.

“The parties agreed that the crisis in Guyana is rooted in the PPP’s obsession with political domination, in its neglect for the problems and concerns of ordinary Guyanese, and its zeal for self-aggrandizement by serving a narrow business cabal and cronies,” it added.

The meeting was attended by representatives of the prominent opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), the Alliance For Change (AFC), the main parties that had been at the forefront of the coalition, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) that lost the last general election to the PPP/C. Several small parties also attended the meeting.

Political observers said that the presence of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) might be a signal of its eventual return to the APNU from which it had broken away in 2020 over “disrespectful” treatment. However, WPA executive member David Hinds dismissed such an assertion, saying that Monday’s talks had nothing to do with this party’s future with APNU.

“There is no discussion about returning to the APNU between the APNU and the WPA at the moment. The meeting we attended …was a joint opposition parties meeting. Not an APNU or coalition meeting,” Dr. Hinds told Demerara Waves Online News publication.

He said that the meeting was one for opposition parties to discuss pressing issues on which they could cooperate and “stop the PPP stampede of the rest of society.”

The Office of the Leader of the Opposition noted that “the APNU+AFC Coalition and the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) met to discuss the growing crisis in governance, democracy, and living conditions in Guyana.”

The opposition parties said they recommitted to engaging in further discussions to take Guyana back for the people of Guyana.