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Weekly Report - 29 January 2015 (WR-15-04)
GUYANA: Ramotar goes to polls to end political crisis
Guyanese President Donald Ramotar has called general elections for 11 May, not far short of two years before they were constitutionally due. Ramotar’s announcement comes after two months of political uncertainty following his impromptu decision to suspend parliament last November. Ramotar expressed his confidence that his People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), which has held sway in Guyana since 1992, would obtain a majority in the 65-member parliament that it failed to secure in 2011. Guyana’s main opposition party, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), is already in talks with the country’s third party, the Alliance for Change, to forge an alliance to wrest power from Ramotar and the PPP/C.
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