Dear Editor,
I continue to be amused by Mr. Jagdeo and company who have one and only one obsession – political power at any cost.

I did some research and found the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) in the same position it was in 1964 when it lost power to the PNC-UF Coalition. The funny thing is, the PPP claimed then that the PNC polled a minority of votes (40 per cent) and UF, only 12 per cent, as against 46 per cent for the PPP.

When the PNC and UF joined up, the PPP protested that two minorities could not make a majority!

Last year, when the vote was taken on the no-confidence motion, the PPP has 32 out of the 65 seats in the National Assembly – a minority. It then took one vote from the APNU+AFC Coalition 33, which gave a “majority” to the PPP.

It is a shameful reversal of the 1964 situation, but the result was the same: two “minorities” combined to remove a majority government. To call for new elections on the basis of that politically immoral act, shows that the PPP has reduced itself into the status of a cheap hustler, for whom power can be bought at any price!

Sincerely,
Cheryl Campbell
Research Student