Whatever it takes to rid Guyana of a pestilence that has invaded Guyana...called PPP.

Take it easy there cain.

The PPP will win again. I just want to see a nice and clean political campaign.

Times have changed, Riff. Objective and subjective conditions have changed.

The Indo voting bloc is no longer a hindrance to the PNC/opposition. There's a good reason why the final 2012 Census result is still official secret.

Voters under 30 years old will make up a large voting bloc. They don't carry any baggage about Burnham, Jagan, D'Aguiar etc.

The Amerindian voting bloc is not pro-PPP basically, especially after Aishalton Stupid Slap.

The PNC will go agressively after the South Georgetown voters which it neglected in 2011.

The AFC will go agressively after West Demerara-Essequibo voters and not concentrate their resources in Berbice.

There will be a calculated division of labour within the new alliance, with each component sharing the campaign field geographically.

TK this is an unfair attack on DG.

Attack? how is this an attack? you of all people are all of a sudden hurt by honest commentary?

Your racist filth you spew daily and now you are offended? please enough with your bullshit.

Speaking of TK, upcoming political developments will show how prescient Tarron Khemraj and Gerhard Ramsaroop were last summer when they jointly advocated a working partnership with APNU and David Granger. These two gentlemen were the objects of some ridicule and naysaying, but their vindication is imminent. Wait and see.

Well it must be somewhere otherwise APNU and the AFC would have long ago formed a coalition gov't.

To understand why a post-election coalition cannot happen, let's consider what the constitution says in Article 177

"THE PRESIDENT

According to the above, the presidential candidate of the party securing the most votes becomes President of Guyana.

Naturally, two parties that finished second and third cannot form the government because the President is from the party with the largest votes. In other words, a PPP President with an APNU-AFC cabinet is a fiction.

That's why alliances take place before elections with one designated presidential candidate.

Correct on the formation of alliances plus the specific section of the Constitution.

Why thank you Captain clarity, you notice how dem chaps here can backup their assertions with quotes and specific documents...unlike you know who...........

Well crafted to make Burnham president for life,

in that era.

Point of note this portion of the constitution was modified and inserted by Jagan and Hubcap himself.

But den again Jagan was Burnham........so no difference.

Your statements continue to provide much laughter on your lack of knowledge.

Hey If I can provide laughter to you that would mek me feel good because you need it.

Section 177 is a fundamental part of the constitution crafted under the Burnham's administration.

Provide evidence to support your assertions DG, if you can't do that I suggest you place your head nicely where it usually is up your u know what.

It might be best that you get a copy of the Guyana constitution which was approved in 1980 with appurtenant amendments and view specifically section 177.

It is amazing to see how you old time hucksters find refuge in Burnham's pernicious constitution, a constitution created by a talk man of a President and his two smooth tongue advisors. You are in the good company of Lincoln Lewis and a few others in the PNC.

The constitution crafted under Burnham's guidance exist today.

Your statement, as usual, is laced with irrelevant issues to the topic.

I have a copy do you?

I am glad to hear you say that. Times and regimes do change.

Regimes indeed do change at each election with the incoming of new members,

In the specific situation, the PPP/C will again form the government.

BURP!

Well it is not stipulated in the above. It is more a case of an assumption. A coalition of several parties is actually free to pick a president from the party with the most votes. 

It looks like the AFC and PNC have not been reading the Constitution properly on this. In the days when there were only two parties this question of mine would not have been asked. But now we have a credible third party, the issue is key to the next phase. Both PNC and the PPP have been smoothing over this issue for their convenience, but the chickens are coming home to roost. It turns out that a coalition government can be formed from combining their total of members in parliament, and the president elected from the largest of the parties in the coalition. That would make Granger president by default.

I think it needs to be clear how this works..because if thy don't go in as a coalition and PPP get 40%, PNC 35 and AFC 25%...does PPP still get to choose the President? Guess they do, since they did before

Correct Raymond, as stipulated in the constitution.

President and also the ministers of the government.

you guys forgetting the opposition have more lawyers than you can count,they already have a way to fix this we have to wait after the talk between the AFC and THE APNU 

The constitution is abundantly clear on the selection of the President and consequently the Ministers.

Currently, the only changes to this specific situation is an amemdment of the constitution, which requires, as a minimum, the approval of about sixty six percent of the MPs.

you figure only the ppp can read the constitution so sad 

Constitutions can be read by anyone.

this constitution is the ppp mantra,but there is more than one way  to skin a cat.i hope you have a good heart because when the opposition spring it on you their will be no heart attack 

The Constitution is Guyana's leading document on governance which was first established in 1980 by the then President Forbes Burnham.

i cannot see a government using a constitution without a parlament i am sure is the parlament have to interpret the constitution 

The Constitution is paramount and independent of whether parliament is in/out of session.

Simply ... it is the governing document of a country.

Given that this is the BURNHAM constitution I suspect that APNU is quite competent in understanding what it entails.

Yes the BURNHAM constitution!