Dear Editor
THIS is a whistle-take on how things look for the competing parties for the elections on September 1, 2025. Let’s do it in alphabetical order.
The AFC is basically finished. It has been wracked by an ongoing exit of top party personalities, and by poor-to-non-existent leadership. The AFC is barely visible in this election cycle.
The APNU will likely hold on to that part of its base that are over 50, and those die-hard David Hinds ideological types. The former will vote based on family loyalty; the latter based on radical ethnic chauvinism. Please see Hinds’ social media posts.

The APNU has been hobbled by a mass-exodus of top leaders and activists, and is at its weakest point in history. If LFS Burnham were alive, he would probably disapprove of Norton.
The PPPC is in a commanding position. If crowd-size is a reliable indicator, then the PPPC will crush the opposition. Beyond crowd size, the PPPC has a strong record of promises made, and promises kept. It also has tested leadership in Ali, Phillips, and Jagdeo. $200,000 to school children, $60,000 to pensioners, free UG education; interest free loans for small businesses, and other proposed measures are bound to find favour with voters. More than anything else, the PPPC has an ‘army’ of activists, who of their own free will, are maintaining the party’s momentum. This bodes well for massive voter turn-out on E-Day.

The WIN party is obviously in trouble because of its compromised leadership. It is doing okay for a ‘flare-up’ party but we have to wait and see if those blue shirts will actually go to the polls. The WIN costal demographics have a lower marginal propensity to show up at the polls on E-Day. In the interior regions, the WIN might not be the last visitor. Further, now that vote-buying is harder because of the new GECOM phone rule in the polling booth, WIN will likely lose the ‘Scrape-votes.’
The other two parties are basically irrelevant because the AFC might be the force for any ‘remainder’ seat. Amanza Desir’s fall is of historic proportions.
All told, the AFC is basically finished; APNU will make no gains; the PPPC is gaining momentum with lots of cross-overs in its corner; and the WIN is hobbled by a sanctioned candidate. It has no PM candidate to date, a sign that top participants are afraid of being implicated.
Sincerely
Dr Randy Persaud