WITH the announcement to the nation that national and regional elections will be held on May 11, the election campaign is now officially on. In fact, campaigning preparations had already been in progress. Now the race has begun. This constitutional exercise is being held two years earlier, and has come about because of circumstances already known, and which ought not to detain us.But, OBSERVER should emphasise that the remaining period should have continued to advance the nation’s development, as genuinely intended by President Donald Ramotar. But the combined Opposition, the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change (AFC), so much believed in the ‘invincibility’ of their one seat majority, that they acted in the belief that they were the government.

For the three years that they together would have occupied seats in the Assembly, they played ‘God’, hindering the development process of the nation. How best will they be able to defend such an anti-national agenda to the people of this nation during their campaign remains to be seen. For during that period of wasting the parliamentary process, they did not offer the nation any possible alternative, except to display how hungry for power they are.
But, OBSERVER refers to that well known Guyanese proverb ‘Yuh mek yuh bed hard, yuh mus lie down on it.’ So much for some lil boys who got a little power in their hands, and start playing God!
One of the important aspects of any national poll are the grave responsibilities reposed in the national elections authority in ensuring a proper poll is organised, where all registered voters are allowed to exercise their constitutional rights on election day. The nation would have been told regularly by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) that their machinery will be ready for action, once a date is announced. OBSERVER hopes that the coming poll will be without the hitches that have be-devilled polls in other countries.
Finally, this particular election is exceptionally critical for this country and its future, since the direction of this country is pivotal to its eventual outcome. The choice for voters has to be either a continuation of the great socio-economic achievements since 1992, or a regression back to the Dark Age of prior 1992.
Given the improved lives, peace and stability that has reigned since, surely no right thinking citizen would endeavour to abandon such positives for a bunch of political marauders whose proclivity for destruction is already proven through their reckless cuts to successive budgets of 2012, 2013, and 2014.