Former People’s Progressive Party Candidate and the son of the founder of the PPP, Dr. Cheddi Jagan Jnr. has offered congratulations to A Partnership for National Unity and the Alliance For Change on the formation of their coalition to contest the May 11 elections.

In a letter to the press, Dr. Jagan said coalition politics is the new world order and it should be made to prevail in Guyana. “Let coalition politics prevail in our nation and those who oppose it will fall by the wayside, becoming politically insignificant”, Jagan said.

Jagan said “from what I have read about the arrangements and conditions between these two parties, there are enough checks and balances placed in the general agreements, that a voter who might be undecided at this time, can identify the merits of this coalition against majority (one party) rule which we the Guyanese people have experienced all our natural lives and which has left us divided and has weakened our dear nation”. 

According to Dr. Jagan, his father, Dr. Cheddi Jagan, called for coalition politics and that was the reason behind the creation of the Civic group as a partner for the PPP. He said since his father’s death in 1997, the civic component was marginalized to the point where Prime Minister Samuel Hinds became a one man show.

“The Civic is dead and any semblance of coalition politics has changed to PPP majority rule (even though they became a minority government).  When PPP leaders claim to be following President Cheddi’s vision, let them explain the demise and death of the Civic which Dr. Jagan placed so much hope on. Mrs. Elizabeth Harper, even though a good civil servant is hardly a civic leader and in reality, becomes “window dressing” for President Cheddi’s vision-a mirage of what that great man envisioned.”

Jagan said his father spoke a lot about a new world order and he believes coalition politics ought to be part of that new order. He is convinced that coalition governance is the answer to civil and political strife.

Filed:  5th March, 2015

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