Dear Editor,
DESPITE the daily dry-cry about press freedom issues here, Kaieteur News has yet again allowed the predictable nonsense from Lincoln Lewis to be published.
But no one is fooled, because even a political novice can see that Lewis is trying to insert something about election irregularities, a quality, ironically for which the PNCR-led APNU-AFC is well known.
Lewis knows very well that the PNC is the darling of rigged elections and other forms of political skullduggery. Their only match might be the WPA which went so far as urging the perfectly legal elections of 2020 be thrown out.
Lewis made references to the 1997 and 2006 elections, both of which the PPP/C won hands down. The man is confused about who won, so below is a review of those results for him.
In 1997, despite violent intimidation by the PNC, the PPP won 34 seats, and the PNC 26. The PPP picked up two seats; the PNC lost five. The PPP received 55.26 per cent of the popular votes; the PNC 40.55 per cent. If Lincoln Lewis still does not understand, he should know that the PPP won 220,667 votes, versus 161,901 votes by the PNC.
In 2006, the PPP/C won 36 seats, the PNCR-1-G won 24, and the new AFC won five. Despite the entry of the AFC, the PPP/C won two more seats, while the PNCR fell again. There was an upswing of 1.7 percentage points (pp) for the PPP/C, but a ‘down-swing’ of 7.6 percentage points for the hapless PNCR.
Lincoln Lewis needs to digest these results and get off the stale but still potent lies about who killed whom during the brutal years after the jail-break. I urge him to read the Stabroek News report on the same subject.
You can find the here at https://www.stabroeknews.com/2019/11/18/news/guyana/prison-break-carnage-february-2002-september-2006/
Yours Truly,
Anson Paul