D2 posted:ksazma posted:D2 posted:ksazma posted:To assume that the PPP cannot win the 2020 elections because East Indians make up less than half of the voting population, one has to conclude that the non-East Indian voting population will foolishly vote against their own stomachs.
Those voting against the PPP are voting their stomach. The PPP like the PNC are racist orgs that treat the state as a prize The PPP made no changes to the constitution to ensure that ethnicity will not be the determining factor because they believed that Indians will always be dominant numerically in the society.
I don't think the PPP had enough votes to overcome Burnham's 2/3 majority to significantly reform the Constitution. To their credit, they made small changes that were possible including the one limiting the President to just two terms. Secondly, from all indications all Guyanese have experienced emptier stomachs the past three years. At best, this government has been hapless.
They had the authority to put rejection of it to a referendum. After all it was foisted on us by fraud. The Herdsmanston Accord was authoritative that Constitution reform must be formally put in motion after the 92 elections. It was to be completed by June 99. The PPP did not initiate anything until january 99 so whatever came about had only four months from deliberation to completion. That we are in the present crisis is completely the PPP's fault and no one else.
It is not fair to blame the PPP for not being able to fix a problem that Burnham essentially made impossible to fix especially when considering that Hoyte had no intention of cooperating with the governing party. Maybe they decided that they will focus on what they can do on their own as they did with limiting Presidents to two terms. Another thing that should not be overlooked is that the PPP did not extend any parliament beyond its 5 years life. Can't say the same for the PNC.