Opposition parties betray national expectations
Memories are not too short so as not to recall the ever recurrent clamour for power sharing  made by both A Partnership for National Unity(APNU) and the Alliance for change(AFC), during the last election campaign. These two parties, at virtually every political meeting wherever held, made this call/theme their central masthead  as they sought to convince the Guyanese constituents of the necessity that this much debated governance strategy  ought to become the new pathway of the nation’s approach to governance. And of course, they each presented themselves as the party to usher in such dispensation   to the existing,  traditional political culture. APNU’S Rupert Roopnarine is on record as saying that his party is even prepared to include members of the PPP/C government in such a re-configuration, headed by an APNU administration.
The unaccustomed   Parliamentary  draw of a PPP/C minority government, occasioned further public declarations from both these two political chameleons  of the need for all to work together for the nation’s good, with APNU’s Granger recommending a tripartite approach, beginning with  considerations for the 2012 national budget. Of course, President Donald Ramotar took the initiative in inviting  both parties for consultations  on a broad range of issues, including the very important question as to nomination for speaker, a matter which it was hoped would have been amicably decided on by consensual discussions, another of the  two opposition parties’ favourite  mantras.
It was on this  first fundamental test that both opposition parties claim of embracing genuine consensual politics failed, thus betraying themselves as political charlatans, hypocrites, and undeniably betraying the expectations of the Guyanese people, whom they abandoned high on the political altar of high expectations.  
It was evident that discussions between  APNU and the AFC were intense, ending in  gridlock, with the names  of Moses Nagamootoo and Debbie Backer being  said to be the respective choices of both parties. Of course, it was their remit to arrive at a common nominee, perhaps  before engaging the PPP/C government in genuine consensual discussions for a final choice. Instead, they resorted  to the shameful and  dishonourable act of deliberately  omitting  the most important principal, the PPP/C government from these critical deliberations. This is nothing else but perfidy, which was fully materialized when at  the opening of the nation’s Tenth Parliament, Raphael Trotman, who it was reported  was unlikely to return to the House, was unanimously elected Speaker by the combined opposition parties.  
Why the great  pretence  by these two parties of discussing a common candidate for Speaker, when  it is patently  clear that both sides had arrived at a secret deal with regards Trotman’s  acceptance? One only has to recall  Granger’s ready endorsement of this pretentious politician,  who  made the nation to understand that he was fed up “with the combative, competitive, and   confrontational  style of governance”, only to suddenly grab the nomination, put forward by all his opposition colleagues. If this is  not high  deceit and fraud, on the part of opposition, then what it is?
The biggest loser  and victim in this  great trickery is undoubtedly Moses Nagamootoo, who has  obviously been  sidelined, duped and  dissed!