PPP/C will ‘stand by our message, promises’ – General Secretary

Guyanese have been called on to compare track records of the PPP/C and the embattled PNCR-led APNU+AFC Coalition and made decisions on facts, not the whisper campaign of the latter.

This is according to General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo, who added, “We have a message that we will stand by. And all of our promises will be delivered on…our credibility backs that.”

The PPP/C has remained faithful to the promises, on which it campaigned, and this has been true under the current PPP/C administration, as well as past PPP/C governments, according to Jagdeo.

“We are very proud of our track record, and our dedication to the manifesto promises made to the people of the country, historically, and in the last elections… you can understand my sense of pride when I say we have remained faithful to the promises we campaigned on,” he said during a recent news conference. Jagdeo said, “We have a track record. When we are in office, all of the people benefit from the PPP/C stewardship. The whole country makes progress, and we work for all of our people. That’s the philosophy of this party.”

According to him, this track record is what the PPP/C will campaign on as it heads into future election cycles, including the upcoming 2023 Local Government Elections (LGE), at which the Party is targeting increased support for the PPP/C in traditional strongholds of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR). “We have never won these areas. We are hoping politically that the people will give us an opportunity in these areas to prove that we can put together a stronger development plan and implement it,” Jagdeo said.

To date, he charged that the Party Manifesto on which the PPP/C was elected to office, has been delivered on. “There is demonstrated progress in every single area,” Jagdeo said, adding that there were major challenges to overcome.

On assuming office in 2020, the PPP/C Government was met with a broken procurement system, featuring regular abuse of Guyana’s procurement laws, and no plan for development in sectors such as health and infrastructure. Moreover, the pressure was on with the subsequent cost of living increases, battling the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as having to right the wrongs of the previous government.

In spite of these challenges, the PPP/C Government has championed a gamut of initiatives to improve the lives of Guyanese, delivering on many of its manifesto promises in just three years in office.

“The People’s Progressive Party, and the government headed by Dr Irfaan Ali have remained faithful to what we promised the electorate. We have worked very hard in the past two and a half years to reorient this country on a track to prosperity, away from the doom and gloom period,” Jagdeo stressed.