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A bad joke or a farce

DEAR EDITOR,

I was incredulous after listening to the Benschop interview of Mr. Granger on May 18, 2020 and reading the May 19th 2020 Guyana Chronicle report of the same interview headed up “I am confident …President Granger not expecting a landslide victory but confident.”
Here was Granger, the former military officer, again at work. When all his minions were botching up their public relations narrative, here the man himself stepped forward to set things straight for his supporters.
I would not be wrong, nor anyone else in Guyana, in assuming that Mr. Granger, as head of the APNU+AFC Coalition, is fully aware of the results of the SOPs of the March 2, 2020 General and Regional Elections in his party’s possession that showed that not only did it not win, even by a margin, but, that it was resoundingly defeated by approximately 17,000 votes! Yet he continues this masquerade to fool his supporters.
For him to say, 78 days after the elections, that he did not expect a landslide victory, but now advocates that “We have to aim at a form of government that is inclusionary…let’s not bother with landslide. …The parties are near equal. By formula — as has been laid out by my colleague Rupert Roopnaraine — people who win 51 per cent of the vote must not behave as if they won 100 per cent of the vote and people who only got 49 per cent of the vote must not be treated as if they got no per cent of the votes and, I live by that. ..I would like to see an inclusionary form of government…one where we can sit down in a mature environment and discuss the issues facing our country. That is the only way forward” is nothing but a bad joke or a farce.
Other than laughing uncontrollably at this farce being perpetuated on the Guyanese people, I am flabbergasted that Mr. Granger would expect the majority of Guyanese to conveniently forget what his administration stood for, and, still continues to stand for, since the May 11, 2015 elections.
His assumption of office was predicated on a less than 1% (4,000 odd votes) victory at the said polls. With such a hairbreadth difference, this “eureka moment” with regards to an inclusionary form of government clearly alluded him when he assumed office.

Who can forget the “ahwe first” and “we time now” policies of his administration? Just to name a few:-
• Terminated of 1,872 Amerindian Community Service Officers;
• Terminated thousands of public servants for their ethnic and/or political affiliation;
• Terminated 99% of Guyana’s representatives at our Foreign missions;
• Terminated Chief Executive Officers and high level managers in all state corporations;
• Terminated 99% of all Permanent Secretaries and Regional Executive Officers;
• Replaced and stacked state boards with APNU+AFC activists;
• Ensconced APNU+AFC activists as advisers in the Ministry of the Presidency and in every Ministry;
• Held up appointments of judges for almost a year in violation of the constitution;
• Revoked farmers’ land leases in contravention of court rulings;
• Closed 4 sugar estates leading to the “collateral damage” of 7000 sugar workers being put on the breadline;
• Neglect of communities that were aligned to the PPP/C;
• Neglect of Amerindian communities generally and especially those that are sympathetic to the PPP/C;
• Allocation of jobs and resources in the public sector based on affiliation to the APNU+AFC Coalition;
• Using SARA and SOCU as political tools to hound down PPP/C leaders;
• Aborted the Commission of Inquiry into the assassination of Dr. Water Rodney;
• Ignored and or attacked any civil society individuals or bodies that were critical and didn’t fall into line;
• Turned the state media into the “rag sheet” of the APNU+AFC Coalition;
• Gave himself and his Ministers 50-100% increases in salaries, benefits and allowances;
• Introduced Anti- working people tax measures, thereby increasing levels of poverty;
• Introduced Anti- business tax measures;
• Appointed the Chairman of GECOM in violation of the constitutional provisions until forced to correct this by the CCJ ruling and orders;
• Excluded contractors and businessmen in the procurement process unless they were seen as “politically correct” a la APNU+AFC Coalition;
• Violated the constitution on repeated occasions, most recent article 106, following the defeat of his government with the NO Confidence Vote;
• Established a partisan National Task Force on COVID 19 in a time of a national health crisis;
• Has done nothing to stem the astounding levels of corruption in his administration, which continue unabated to date.
In the National Assembly, a place in parliamentary democracies where there is some modicum of “give and take” based on long standing norms and conventions, his administration hogged it all from June 2015:
• Defeated every motion brought by the parliamentary opposition, even those which were non-partisan e.g. suicide prevention, rice farmers, sugar industry, interior roads, crime;
• Defeated every amendments brought by the parliamentary opposition on any bill;
• Suspended the Standing Orders to rush through large and complex bills at first reading, such as the Cybercrime bill, amendments to the AMLCFT bills, and the Anti-Terrorism bill;
• Refused to send bills to Parliamentary Special Select Committees for scrutiny;
• Ignored the findings of the Auditor General reports and took no corrective action.

Even as I write Granger’s caretaker administration continues unrelentingly with the same polices of political and ethnic discrimination, exclusivity, highhandedness, and “party paramountcy” started in May 2015—the very same policies that led to his defeat at the March 2, 2020 polls.
Is it because defeat is now staring him in his face that he has chosen opportunistically to pander to “an inclusionary form of government”?
No Mr. Granger. In 2015, the two parties were 50.3% versus 49.7%; there was the golden opportunity to prove his commitment to an inclusionary government which he squandered. Why should anyone trust Granger now?
The Granger administration has taken this country down a treacherous path of political division, economic collapse, undermining the rule of law and the constitution as it merrily went along, confident that their time would last forever. Granger’s “eureka” moment has come five years too late. This will never be possible under Granger’s tutelage.
I have no doubt that there will be inclusionary governance, and, we shall as a people and a nation work together to develop an inclusionary form of government, not by divvying up the spoils as Granger and others’ advocate, but through a national inclusive consultative process.
Whenever the recount is finished and the new President, Dr. Irfaan Ali, is sworn in, then the work will begin to reconstruct our country, to repair the damage of APNU+AFC Coalition’s five years of incompetence and party paramountcy , and, to find a way forward and start the process that is truly inclusive.

Yours sincerely,
Gail Teixeira

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I would not be wrong, nor anyone else in Guyana, in assuming that Mr. Granger, as head of the APNU+AFC Coalition, is fully aware of the results of the SOPs of the March 2, 2020 General and Regional Elections in his party’s possession that showed that not only did it not win, even by a margin, but, that it was resoundingly defeated by approximately 17,000 votes! Yet he continues this masquerade to fool his supporters.



Gail, missing out on the PPP/C tabulation ,that number changed by the party.

check here https://region4sopsinformation...2ajFALuAAyupBGm3r86I

Django
@Django posted:

I would not be wrong, nor anyone else in Guyana, in assuming that Mr. Granger, as head of the APNU+AFC Coalition, is fully aware of the results of the SOPs of the March 2, 2020 General and Regional Elections in his party’s possession that showed that not only did it not win, even by a margin, but, that it was resoundingly defeated by approximately 17,000 votes! Yet he continues this masquerade to fool his supporters.



Gail, missing out on the PPP/C tabulation ,that number changed by the party.

check here https://region4sopsinformation...2ajFALuAAyupBGm3r86I

If the PPP was off, they can't be off by 17,000. I like your spirit. It's like knowing the storm will last all day but you are fooling yourself that it will end in an hour. Can you explain the hesitancy on the PNC not to give the same urgency to count(not recount) 4? Looks like dem battie can cut a 7" spike nail when the mention of region 4 comes up. LIKE WE USE TO SAY AND STILL DO, WHAT'S THE HOLDUP?
If the PPP was wrong, what prompted Dingo Mingo to manufacture his own spreadsheet giving PNC thousands of votes and taking away PPP's numbers?

FM
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@Former Member posted:

If the PPP was off, they can't be off by 17,000. I like your spirit. It's like knowing the storm will last all day but you are fooling yourself that it will end in an hour. Can you explain the hesitancy on the PNC not to give the same urgency to count(not recount) 4? Looks like dem battie can cut a 7" spike nail when the mention of region 4 comes up. LIKE WE USE TO SAY AND STILL DO, WHAT'S THE HOLDUP?
If the PPP was wrong, what prompted Dingo Mingo to manufacture his own spreadsheet giving PNC thousands of votes and taking away PPP's numbers?

Did  you check out by how much the numbers changed ,that's a method of number fixing .Looks like the PPP doing their own recount.

Let's suppose if the coalition did that ,what would be your remarks ?

Django
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@Django posted:

Did  you check out by how much the numbers changed ,that's a method of number fixing .

With the addition and subtraction of the fraudster, it affected a little bit over 3,000 votes in the PNC favor.

FM
@Former Member posted:

With the addition and subtraction of the fraudster, it affected a little bit over 3,000 votes in the PNC favor.

Where did the fraudster numbers comes from ? anyone have the ballot boxes tabulation of the fraudster or is it make up ?

Django
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@Django posted:

Where did the fraudster numbers come from ? anyone have the ballot boxes tabulation of the fraudster or is it make up?

Check Mingo's spreadsheet, bhai. It was prominently displayed here numerous times by Dave.

FM
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@Former Member posted:

Check Mingo's spreadsheet, bhai. It was prominently displayed here numerous times by Dave.

@Django posted:

That's not it ,that's FAKE.

Oh my, oh my ... Mingo's spreadsheet is FAKE.

FM
@Abu Jihad posted:

Skites, jango admit Mingo spreadsheet is fake.

Abu, Django never admitted any of PNC misdeeds. On the contrary, Buddy Django indulges in all forms of pulling rabbits out of the hat for the PNC. The man is like an IBM Watson excuse machine.

FM

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