MAY 11, 2015 will go down as a defining moment in our history. On that day, a democratically elected Government will seek re-election to office way ahead of its constitutional mandate received in the November 2011 elections.

This is the first time in our long and turbulent political history that a Head of State was forced to prorogue Parliament following a no-confidence motion laid by the minority Alliance For Change (AFC), which most certainly would have been passed were it not for the dissolution of Parliament by President Donald Ramotar. And it would have been carried with the support of the APNU!

This unprecedented development in our body-politic will be put to the Guyanese electorate for a resolution on May 11.

There can be no doubt that the action of the combined political Opposition in parliament has been greeted with widespread condemnation, especially by erstwhile supporters of the AFC, who felt betrayed by that party’s leadership.

There are, already, strong indications that a significant number of AFC supporters are prepared to punish that party by switching allegiance back to the PPP, as could be seen from the huge turnout at PPP meetings and rallies in areas where the AFC got most of its electoral support in the last elections.

The re-election to office of the PPP/C will be a vindication of the action taken by President Ramotar to seek a fresh mandate from the Guyanese people, after it became increasing clear that the combined parliamentary Opposition was not prepared to support the PPP/C Administration in passing key and critical legislation to implement policies and programmes to advance the welfare and wellbeing of the Guyanese people.

The action of the combined political Opposition was tantamount to political blackmail and economic sabotage, and the President was left with no option but to seek renewed mandate after all reasonable attempts to find a resolution had failed.

President Donald Ramotar and the PPP/C Administration had been held hostage by an unscrupulous opposition which was more concerned with the lust for power than with the wellbeing of the Guyanese people. An injustice was clearly done to President Ramotar and his administration by the APNU-AFC coalition, which most certainly will be remedied on May 11.

HYDAR ALLY