Dear Editor,
The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) has put into motion their thorough preparation for the upcoming Local Government Elections (LGEs), which is certain to lead to a massive victory at the June 12 polls.

Significantly, the all-inclusiveness of the proposed candidates creates a win-win for communities in all Local Authority Areas nationwide and will serve to strengthen democracy at the grass-root levels.

The due diligence and vigilance of the PPP/C at these LGEs will be without boundaries as the party and supporters go into full elections mode. General Secretary of the PPP, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, is mobilising all his forces and putting all systems in place for a robust but free and fair contest.

Without contradiction, the party will be moving to augment its revealed all-inclusive list of nominated candidates, expressing the unrestricted diversity and quality of persons approved and recommended by the PPP/C as a symbol of the unreserved pursuit of unity.

The PPP/C’s campaign approach demonstrates an emboldened sense of ground-breaking nationalism, targeting the most significant dividing obstacles to our peoples’ advancement.
They do so aware of the need to break the long-known falsity of ethnic division that Oppositions forces have used for decades as a pillar of indoctrination, for continuing the suppression to development as a trade-off for power grabbing.

They do so in recognition that a balanced injection of experience and initiatives at the Local Authority Area (LAAs) levels will catalyze an overwhelming parallel promotion of appealing and motivating communities to the population.

Consequently, the fact that PPP/C is enjoying a significant percentage of ‘walk-overs’ based on the ‘Nomination Day’ proposal of candidates to contest the LGEs is not surprising. Notwithstanding, the PPP/C’s activists are taking nothing for granted, nor sparing no chance to root with the masses as they reach out to the communities with their messages to all the voters.
Accordingly, the general population should anticipate outreaches and engagements in various forms of appropriate communication comprising party members and supporters distributing pamphlets and handbills; and being involved in bottom-house meetings as well as one-and-one speaking to the people in all communities.

Further, the continuance of Ministers of Government working in communities to address the issues of all citizens is most heartening and demonstrative of the total commitment of the leaders of the PPP/C, who are now proven to be unwavering in the spirit of a One Guyana agenda as they walk the walk. No empty words define the re-energised PPP/C methods as they set about achieving an improved and deserving future for all citizens.

These LGEs will be most interesting given the encouraging demonstrated spirit of enthusiasm and togetherness that now characterize a resuscitation of will amongst our people. For all these good reasons, people from all walks of life proudly accompany the PPP/C candidates in their campaigns around the country.

Indeed, opportunities are emerging for all as the government moves to address people’s personal issues and community problems positively. The PPP leaders and ministers are showing keen interest in and are willing to listen to the masses to resolve matters, bringing them in direct contact with the people on the ground.

Editor, for too long, the blind obligation to oppose for the sake of being in Opposition, was allowed to thrive in support of a few self-aggrandising henchmen and women. In recent times, most of the current Opposition frontline administrators, while trying to steal the peoples’ democratic rights, also supported policies imposing increased tax burdens and other sufferings on our citizens. These they referred to as collateral damages, which the PPPC had to remove swiftly or set policies to treat over time on assuming government in August of 2020.

It is rational that working at grass root levels with our citizens regardless of perceived ethnic divide and supporting the constitutional foundational framework, yields the conditions for proposal and feedback that is conducive to accelerating community empowerment and development.

Moreover, faking the approach will have consequences given that fictitious propagandists will no longer deceive our citizens, as improvements to one’s position must not be only perceived but felt.

For these tangibles and other reasons, the PPP/C’s genuine outreaching and solution-oriented engagements, as opposed to the PNC’s unconstructive opposing, have proved to be more and more complementary and meaningful to our people.

The Guyana 2023 LGEs are expected to significantly encourage the dream and reality of President Irfaan Ali’s ‘One Guyana’ undertakings. As this nation prepares for voting on the 12th of June, the electorate seems to be more pump-up and ready to vote with great determination to strengthen local democracy.

Sincerely,
Neil Kumar