Dear Editor,

ON Monday, June 12, 2023, we saw Guyanese– both young and old– go to the polls in the Local Government Elections (LGEs) and exercise their democratic right by voting for a political party of their choice.

Those voters across Guyana voted for a political party and candidates in whom they had placed their trust and confidence, that they are going to be better represented in their constituencies with the NDCs and townships.

The LGEs were smooth and hardly were there major hiccups and hindrances to the process. GECOM must be complimented for well-managed Local Government Elections.

LGEs 2023 have proven that the PPP/C is stronger by gaining more votes from the 2018 LGEs and I should not have said gaining, but instead say taking away thousands of votes from the PNC within their many stronghold constituencies in Local Authority Areas (LAAs).

The PNC (I am saying PNC because they are using APNU as a disguise) has been so badly beaten in the 2023 LGEs by the PPP that they cannot even find ways and means of telling their supporters the truth about their loss, but yet once again masquerading across the few areas that they won, saying they are stronger in LGEs 2023.

I cannot figure out what the PNC celebration is all about. No one celebrates their death. No one celebrates when they are going down. No one celebrates when they lose. But yet the PNC is celebrating and for what no one knows, but they’re just celebrating.

How can the PNC be so dumb and foolish to celebrate when in the 10 townships of Guyana they only would be managing, or I should say mismanaging three towns, while the PPP won seven out of the 10?

Why would the PNC want to celebrate when within the entire Guyana they have only contested 45% of the 610 constituencies and 24 of the LAAs, while the PPP/C has contested in all of the 610 constituencies in the 80 LAAs?

It’s a shame that the PNC is calling themselves a national party that can represent all and they have failed to find a single candidate to contest in the town of Lethem. The PPP won all 10 seats within that township.

The PPP won the popular vote in 66 of the 80 Local Authority Areas (LAAs) at this year’s local government polls. The PPP outrightly won 62 but tied in four areas. In the tied areas, however, the party won the popular vote which would mean that its representative would get the chairmanship position.

APNU won only 14 LAAs, a decrease from the 23 it had won in 2018, but yet they are celebrating. Pack of Jokers.

Imagine the PNC is celebrating that they won the towns of New Amsterdam, Georgetown, and Linden, but we all know that those townships have been controlled by the PNC for decades and they would have won.

But what the PNC failed to tell its supporters and Guyana at large is that at LGEs 2023, they have lost thousands of votes within those townships to the PPP and that the PPP made an impact and inroads in those towns.

In the town of New Amsterdam, the PPP/C made significant inroads by gaining more votes and winning more seats on the council. In 2018 the PPP had three seats, in 2023 the PPP won six seats. So, the PPP gained three more seats from 2018.

In Georgetown, the PPP made major inroads by winning five of the constituencies out of the 15. In 2018 the PPP had just over 6,800 votes; in 2023 the PPP moved up to over 12,200 votes. This means the PPP won over 5000 votes more. In 2016 the PPP had two seats, in 2018 the PPP moved up to seven seats, and in 2023 the PPP jumped to 11 seats within the town council.

Imagine the PNC, who is the mastermind of lies and deception, failing to tell Guyana that in 2023 they lost votes in their strong areas of Sophia, Charlestown, Albouystown, Tucville, and North Ruimveldt.

In Linden, the PPP again made major inroads: in 2018 the PPP had about 400 votes and in 2023 the PPP jumped to over 2400 votes. Over 2000 votes more. This gives the PPP another seat at the council, because in 2018 the PPP had one seat and in 2023, they now have two seats.

In the towns that the PPP won, they have taken away a lot of votes from the PNC but the PNC is ashamed to say the figures publicly. The PNC is so bad at mathematics and calculations that they cannot have the correct figures as to the votes they lost to the PPP at LGEs 2023.

In the many NDCs, the PNC has also lost thousands of votes to the PPP and only recently we saw that in the two constituencies that were tied in Regions Five and Six, the PPP has won in the courts by the drawing of lots by the respective returning officers in front of a magistrate.

So, there is nothing for the PNC to celebrate, except their demise and I don;t know who on earth would celebrate such.

The PPP will now dominate over 80% of the LAAs. It means that the PPP will manage over 66 including seven out of the 10 towns.

This means that the PNC has lost some 40% of the areas they won in 2018 and would now have 14 LAAs, as opposed to the 23 they had in 2018.

Please PNC, stop celebrating and hire a grade two student to do the calculations so you guys can know the real figures.

Now that LGEs are gone, let the work continue so that come 2025 we would see more fake celebrations from the PNC as they would be going down at the national and regional elections.

The PPP has proven in the 2023 LGEs that they are a party for all as they strive to ensure there is development under “One Guyana.”

Regards,
Abel Seetaram