–Jagdeo highlights, thanks supporters for rallying behind the party
–assures persons who did not vote for them that their future is also secure

THE People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) is on course to secure the presidency and also a larger parliamentary majority than in 2020, party General Secretary Dr Bharrat Jagdeo has disclosed
During an interview shared on his Facebook page on Tuesday, he said that the Statements of Polls (SoPs), which are publicly available on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM)’s website, show the PPP/C’s undeniable and “substantial margin” of victory over the other parties.
“The PPP will go into the National Assembly with a bigger majority than it did in 2020, that’s very clear from the trend you’re seeing and from the gap between our total votes and that of WIN, APNU and all the other small parties combined. There’s a substantial difference between the votes we garnered at the elections and what they [got] combined,” he said.
Dr Jagdeo said the SoPs tabulated so far show a large margin of victory over the combined votes of the opposition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), the U.S.-sanctioned Azruddin Mohamed’s political outfit We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) party, and other smaller political groups.
With the release SoPs by GECOM, Dr Jagdeo urged the public to verify the results themselves.
“Every Guyanese by now who is just a bit proficient with a calculator could sit down and calculate the results of the elections, and they would see, based on those results, who the victorious party was or is and by a substantial margin too,” he stated.
He said the PPP/C completed the internal tabulation and was able to see the results around 05:00hrs, on Tuesday morning.
On the conduct of the polls, the PPP General Secretary said that he is extremely pleased with the process and stated that the elections were peacefully organised and people were allowed to vote “freely.”
He also thanked the party’s supporters and activists for securing the party’s victory.
Addressing those who did not vote for the PPP/C, Dr Jagdeo said the party works for the entire Guyana and assured them: “Their futures are also secured.”
He also dismissed the claims of irregularities by opposition parties and those aligned, including allegations that there were issues with foreign nationals voting.
“Not a single person who is not eligible to vote voted on election day,” he said.
APNU’s presidential candidate Aubrey Norton, on Tuesday in a brief interview, said that he still sees a pathway to victory, although the party is projected to lose in its strongholds.
Dr Jagdeo spoke about the WIN party wiping out APNU’s base and attributed it to several factors: several former APNU members have now aligned with the new party; the alleged financial inducements by WIN and them running a misleading social media campaign that appealed to young voters.
Speaking more on WIN’s social media campaign that focused on “lying” to citizens, the PPP/C’s General Secretary said that the campaign of optics resonated with a lot of young and impressionable voters.
Also, APNU’s silent embracing of the WIN party with the hope of creating a minority PPP/C government, according to the PPP General Secretary, has caused APNU’s dismal performance.
He said: “They were wrong and being wrong has consequences for them and that’s why Congress Place must be a very sad place today.”
He also talked about those persons who left the APNU because of vilification among other factors, must be “very happy” because they came to a party that has secured victory at the polls.