FIRST of all I would like to congratulate the People Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) for winning the 2020 general and regional elections. I would also like to congratulate, Dr. Ifraan Ali becoming President of Guyana and wish him a good and prosperous term in office.

It has become the habit of the Peopleís National Congress now branded as A Partnership of National Unity (APNU) not to accept elections results when the party knows that it is losing. It started in 1992 when results from the general elections showed that the PNC was losing and the PPP/C was winning. The PNC supporters took to the streets of Georgetown marching, beating Indo-Guyanese who were deemed to be supporters of the PPP/C. Fires were set to some Indian stores and mobs took to the streets. Previously, things were calm in Georgetown when Forbes Burnham and later Desmond Hoyte rigged elections.
After over 50 years of independence, Guyana is yet to get over free and fair elections as in other West Indian islands. It has been a shame and disgrace in the British Commonwealth and British Caribbean territories that PNC plus AFC were still in the habit of stealing elections. No other country in the British Caribbean faces the problem. Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Antigua and Bermuda, St. Kitts Nevis, Dominica, Bermuda, Belize, etc., do not face this problem. It is only happening in Guyana.

It has been a shame and disgrace to see the ABC and European countries putting sanctions on APNU+AFC to accept free and fair elections.
It is shame to see Guyanaís general elections had to go to the courts in Guyana and finally to the Caribbean Court of Justice for the recount to be accepted. It was a shame that after four months of the general and regional elections a winner was yet to be announced.
Will the shameful and disgraceful practice continue in the future if the APNU+AFC continues to lose elections?
The APNU+AFC wants to be in government by any crocked means and Ö. Whether the coalition parties will change its ways or not will be seen in the future.
Yours sincerely,
Baldeo Persaud