Jagdeo: PPP worried birth certificates will be used to rig elections
Bharrat Jagdeo
March 6, 2016 – Demerara Waves.
Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo fears that the APNU+AFC-led coalition government plans to rig future elections by setting the stage to register thousands of underage persons.
Addressing hundreds of persons at Babu John, Port Mourant, Corentyne on Sunday, March 6, 2016 in honour of late People’s Progressive Party founder-leader, Dr. Cheddi Jagan, the Opposition Leader reasoned that the voters list could appear clean but the party needed to guard against padding with under-aged persons. Continue reading
Jagdeo predicts 4 or 5 seat PPP election victory in 2020
Jagdeo predicts 4 or 5 seat PPP election victory
Bharrat Jagdeo at Babu John, Port Mourant 2018
Demerara Waves – March 11, 2018
Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo forecasts a 50,000 vote defeat of the governing coalition if more of his People’s Progressive Party supporters are registered and go out to cast their ballots at the next general elections.
Under the proportional representation electoral system, a seat is equivalent to about 5,000 votes. The A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change barely clinched a one-seat majority in the 65-seat National Assembly at the May, 2015 general and regional elections. Continue reading →
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