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Weekly Report - 21 May 2015 (WR-15-20)

GUYANA: PPP/C turfed out of power

Guyanese politics entered a new era on 11 May. The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), which has held sway over Guyana for 23 years, lost its stranglehold on power in very tight general elections. David Granger, the presidential candidate for the multi-ethnic opposition coalition A Partnership for National Unity (Apnu) and Alliance for Change (AFC) defeated the incumbent president, Donald Ramotar, by fewer than 5,000 votes out of more than 400,000 ballots cast. Granger will have no room for manoeuvre as the Apnu-AFC won a majority of just one, with 33 seats in the 65-seat parliament to the PPP/C’s 32. The defeat of a longtime incumbent mirrored February’s result in St Kitts & Nevis when Prime Minister Denzil Douglas, who had been in office for 20 years, lost power.

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