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Weekly Report - 06 August 2020 (WR-20-31)
GUYANA: Granger finally concedes defeat
Exactly five months to the day after losing Guyana’s general election, President David Granger conceded defeat on 2 August. After a transparent attempt to steal the elections, the ruling A Partnership for National Unity-Alliance for Change (Apnu-AFC) government resorted to an onslaught of litigation, impugning the validity of the (prolonged but widely commended) recount process, and facing down unremitting pressure from regional and international partners. But when the end came, it came quickly. The big question now is whether Irfaan Ali, the presidential candidate of the main opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), who was promptly sworn-in as Granger’s successor, will honour his promise to govern for all Guyanese in the interests of national unity or whether he will revert to the partisan politics practised by his party in the past, with all the added scope for cronyism and corruption provided by the country’s newfound oil wealth.
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