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GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Mar 18 2016 – Guyanese were on Friday voting in the first Local Government Elections since 1994 with both the government and the main opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) confident of winning the elections.
President David Granger told reporters that “it is a feeling of great satisfaction that our coalition within the first year in office has been able to give to the Guyanese people, something that they crave for over the last 19 years, so I am very happy and very satisfied that we have been able to deliver local democracy to our citizens”.
He is predicting a high turnout of voters since voters have been clamouring for changes to the local systems that would have governed them for over two decades.
But PPP/C general secretary, Clement Rohee said he is convinced that the voters will send a message to the coalition government comprising A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance for Change (AFC) that they have become worse off ever since the PPP/C government was removed from office in May last year.
There are over 500,000 people eligible to vote in the election that was won by the PPP/C when it was last held in 1994.
