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Reply to "The coalition governs; now what about the future of each party?"

Originally Posted by Kari:

APNU could not have been leading a government without partnering with the AFC. That's a given. It would have had a long clog to win the hearts and minds of the largest ethnic group.

 

The AFC knows it is too small and too young with not such a large party infrastructure to win governance. It's objective was to get rid of a corrupt PPP and usher in an era of non-racial voting.

 

It is expected that the partnership will be rocky. We've already seen the protocol surrounding the division of the spoils - the Ministries. Boards, Commissions, etc. are to follow. The AFC knows that while it got a guaranteed number of Parliamentary seats and Ministries, it cannot grow as an individual party like the APNU and PPP can.

 

Governing is one vehicle to establish trust and a pedigree. The AFC however will need at some time to have mechanisms to grow.Can it do so while in a governing partnership or will it lose its identity. In fact it has sought to have its identity as a multi-racial and anti-corruption party. Those are important tools when confronted with a corrupt and incompetent governing party. Now that it is in government it has to solidify and expand its identity in such a way as to make itself a peer with the other two large parties; build an infrastructure; write its history and establish its heroes.

 

The PPP needs to reinvent itself and clean house. It needs to drop the references to Marxism-Leninism and democratize its structure. Ramjattan made that call a while back. It needs to get out of the grasp of Jagdeo - Moses made that call.

 

APNU will seek to regain a national trust and it has to thank the AFC for the opportunity.

 

The AFC needs to grow, period. What path will it define for such growth?

Guys, we all have to remember President Granger is under much pressure from his PNC party.  The AFC got 40% of everything - cabinet, MPs, heads of Department etc.

 

This is a fair deal.

 

It is working.

 

Why trouble it.

 

Yes there could have been more HINDU representatives in the Cabinet, but other than that, this Cabinet tick all the boxes especially on the WOMEN's FRONT (NUFF women in the Cabinet).

FM
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