OPPOSITION Leader, David Granger’s letter to President Donald Ramotar seeking to have Local Government Elections called on or before September 15 is being viewed as a political strategy and not necessarily as an ultimatum. 

Head of the Presidential Secretariat and Secretary to the Cabinet, Dr. Roger Luncheon said so yesterday at his post-Cabinet news conference at Office of the President.
He reported how the matter was discussed at the most recent meeting of Cabinet last Tuesday.
“You will soon be hearing of an effort, an attempt, by the governing party, definitely by the Administration, to have this kind of engagement with Mr. Granger to bring clarity to what he actually, in his very brief letter, is seeking to have done, and to establish what he is really getting at when this proposal, what he called for, his demands, surfaced,” Luncheon remarked.
“What does the Leader of the Opposition really want? Because we know that he knows what we know. Everybody knows that. So he can’t call for the impossible. The Messiah ain’t coming tomorrow, so why would he ask President Ramotar to do the impossible? There is a reason and we need to inquire what that reason or reasons are,” said Luncheon.
Granger wrote in his letter to the President: “We remind you that the Local Authorities (Elections) (Amendment) Bill, at its second reading on 2014.02.10, was debated and passed ‘As amended,’ directing that elections be held on or before 1st August 2014.

Granger’s letter had said that failing an announcement by President Ramotar to call elections by September 15 will result in the Opposition taking lawful action to mobilise national and international support in defence of local democracy, the Constitution and the rights of the Guyanese people.