THE ruling People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) has hit the ground running with its elections campaign, following President Donald Ramotar’s Tuesday announcement of May 11 as Election Day.Already, full page advertisements have been placed in local daily newspapers and President Ramotar himself has been featured in a televised bid for his party’s return to Government.
In the TV ad, approximately three minutes long, he pitched his vision for more jobs, universal secondary education, housing, Information Communication and Technology (ICT) advances, and development of major industries.
Ramotar also underscored the economic gains Guyana has made under consecutive PPP/C Administrations and stressed the need for these to be consolidated and built on.
He urged Guyanese to not allow the mistakes of the last regime, which spanned 28 years, to stymie the progress of the Guyanese people and, by extension, Guyana.
“The Opposition had a chance for 28 years….the next five years are critical for Guyana,” Ramotar said.

To this end, he appealed for the Guyanese people to support his Party and facilitate continued progress and development.
These sentiments follow comments from PPP General Secretary, Clement Rohee on Monday during a press conference, where he made it clear that the Party is ready for General and Regional elections.
“The Party is well underway with its preparations for the imminent elections; already we have started to mobilise volunteers and activate our elections machinery,” he said.
According to him, the PPP is ready for a move to general and regional elections. “We have never been afraid of elections,” Rohee declared.
He added that having gauged the sentiments of the Guyanese people, the ruling party is confident of regaining its majority at the next elections.
He said, “The mood was one of optimism with encouraging signs that the PPP/C would win a comfortable majority of the votes whenever elections are held, thereby being in a much better position to continue with its development agenda without let or hindrance by Opposition parties.”
According to Rohee, party members and supporters, during recent meetings and outreaches, pledged their continuing support to the Party and their commitment to working untiringly to realise a complete victory for the party in the upcoming elections.
“The PPP will soon re-commence its countrywide outreach programme with a series of bottom house and community meetings planned; party leaders will fan out to coastal and hinterland regions in the coming weeks,” Rohee concluded.