ELECTION time brings out the best and the worse of the political elements.
We already see that with the hatred being peddled by the opposition media, i.e.,  Stabroek News and Kaieteur News, and of course Channel 9 TV. But there is also a comical side to things. You don’t know if you should laugh or cry when you encounter this stuff. Let us take a look.
Earlier today (yesterday),  I was watching a news programme on Fox News. The anchor spent quite some time highlighting Donald Trump’s demand to see President Obama’s birth certificate.
Much like this American political comic, I read that the PNC big ones complained about the state media to the UNDP visiting team. I had to check and double check that the PNC was complaining about unfair media!
The complaint is not serious. It was meant to put something on the table for the foreigners.
The UNDP team members are polite by training, and must have listened out of courtesy. But make no mistake – the team is fully aware that it is the PNC and AFC that have all the top extremists in the Guyanese media.
Granger’s coverage in Stabroek News could not have been better if he had even owned that elitist outlet. That publication also has a strong ‘town-man’ bias, something it is trying to cover up with little articles about life away from Georgetown. As they say in parliament – shame! shame!
Bharrat Jagdeo and the PPP have an unrivalled record of defending the rights of free expression. President Jagdeo would not budge on this despite the extraordinary excesses of the opposition media. Granger’s complaint shows that he is a novice in politics.
Now the comicality of the PNC got even worse when they complained about registration. What concerns do they really have? They must be dreaming, I mean  literally. They must be dreaming about those days when the party, which owned the government, was registering dead people in Guyana.
The name of a man’s dog from Hague was on the voter’s list in 1973, and this despite both the man and his dog had died. Mr. Granger should ask Dr. Roopnarine of the WPA for the documentary made in London about dead overseas voters.
I also demand that the UNDP put the members of the Murray Group and Mr. Vieira on the witness stand regarding illegal disqualifications in the process that led up to Mr. Granger’s election.
Let us get to the biggest comic moment. The PNC just announced that it is in talks with the GPP, WPA, and GAP concerning the prime ministerial candidate.
There is a long, lethargic, and laughable discourse about treating the presidential spot as ‘open’. First of  all – who the hassa-cack is the GPP? I doubt that even the family members of the few people who make up this party know anything about it.
Anyway, Guyana is a free country and anyone can run! As for the GAP and WPA, I can only say – ow mi gaad ah yuh gat lil shame nah. The WPA is all hat and no cattle, nuff  big words but no votes. Incidentally, eighty percent of the WPA supporters live in Toronto and New York.
The WPA is likely to come up with the following defense – the WPA is not an electoral party.
We are interested in the fundamental structural transformation of the social, political, and economic order. But we do not believe in getting the votes of the Guyanese people. We, the WPA intellectuals know best.
The fact is they know precious little about electoral politics. That fact also is – they just do not get more than 60 or seventy votes in the whole country, all of those being from family members and friends.
One more fact – the PNC is also learning how to campaign in a free and fair election. They have decades of experience in electoral fraud, but that does not count. Those days are over, and even the UNDP knows that.