Contrary to portrayal, AFC/APNU doesn’t occupy moral high-ground

THE Coalition of the Alliance For Change (AFC) and A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) is actively selling itself as a pro-democratic force in our country. These parties make big claims of their morality and sell themselves as being above others.

I believe in democracy. I believe that the people of a country should have a right to choose who would lead them. I am a strong believer that leaders should hold themselves to the standards to which they hold others.

The coalition is not a pro-democratic alliance. The leaders and supporters of this alliance make big claims of this union. I would like to point at the fact that this union has a questionable beginning. The fact that neither of these parties had free and fair elections to elect leaders within the party should effectively remove the term “pro-democratic” as an adjective to this alliance.

It also raises questions as to whether the undemocratic leaders of these parties compromised the parties’ elections to ensure the coalition was possible.

The fraudulent nature of the members of this coalition has also been highlighted by former AFC members Sixtus Edwards and Balwant Persaud. These former members highlighted issues such as poor accountability, undemocratic elections, and cronyism. The members of these parties are yet to give account of this.

I believe that these parties are not occupants of the moral high ground in our country. They have used deceptive tactics. It’s not plausible to have undemocratic forces heading a democratic country. It is simply contradictory.

If the parties find it impossible to account for their own spending, how would they account for a country’s spending? Only the deluded would ever describe this coalition as credible and pro-democratic.

DAVENDRA KISSOON

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