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PPPC Presidential Candidate presents nomination Lists to GECOM  

Flank by thousands of supporters moving to the rhythm of soca music, the People’s Progressive Party/Civic candidates for the National Top Up List and the Regional Lists led by Presidential Candidate, His Excellency Bharrat Jagdeo and Prime Ministerial Candidate Hon. Samuel Hinds, vibrantly paraded from the Party Headquarters, Freedom House, Robb Street to City Hall, Region Street and Republic Avenue.

“We are here to present the list of candidates for the winning team, the PPP/C in the 2006 Elections,” His Excellency told the Chief Election Officer Gocool Budhoo when he handed over the Lists at City Hall.

The presentations of both Lists were witnessed by the Party members, Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission Dr. Steve Surujbally, local and international observers, members of the public and the media.

His Excellency also presented the Party’s Symbol for the List and its Elections Agent to the Guyana Elections Commission.

He thanked GECOM for its hard work to prepare for the Elections and expressed the Party’s confidence that free and fair polls would be conducted.

“While we are presenting the winning List today, we are interested also in the process,” he said. When the nominations were over, His Excellency told the media that “we have a very positive list, young and old, people of all races. We have a balance of males and females. We have professionals as well as ordinary people. It is a comprehensive list. It reflects the reality of Guyana and that is why we think we are going to win the Elections, along with the hard work we have being doing.”

PPP/C is contesting the 2006 General Elections under the theme “A Brighter Future For All” and its Nomination Lists not only meet requirements but clearly illustrates the Party’s openness and efforts to truly represent every Guyanese. The National Top Up List satisfies the criterion of having one-third of its candidates as females, while the ratio for females on the Regional List even exceeds this mark for several regions, among them being Regions Seven and Nine. The number of female nominees in Region Two matches the male nominees. A striking aspect of the 2006 Nomination List is the number of professionals named. This exceeds the number of politicians nominated. Many of the professionals nominated are doctors, lawyers, politicians, Pubic Servants, educators, private sector employees and even a geologist and the first ever Guyanese Amerindian woman to earn a PhD Desiree Fox.

“She came on the list because she saw the progress in Guyana and what we have done for the indigenous people,” the Presidential Candidate said

The Part’s List also reflects several new faces, particularly among the young candidates, which testifies to our strong emphasis on youths.

A substantial part of both the National Top Up and the Regional Lists comprise Guyanese of all ethnic groups. This is particularly evident on the Regional List, where in Regions One, Eight, Nine and Ten there are no Indo-Guyanese nominees. But in the thrust to ensure the representation of professionals, the ordinary citizens were not left out, including housewives, farmers and labourers. All candidates on the lists are citizens who actually live in the country, not only at Elections time but even before, which is not the same for many political opponents contesting the Elections.

Addressing the critical Polling Day, the Presidential Candidate urged young voters who would be exercising their franchise for the first time, to remember the country’s history and make their own judgment to cast their polls based on the progress made over the last 14 years and differences in the country today.

“If they look at the history they would know that the PPP/C is the Party that returned freedom to Guyana, which they enjoy today, the freedom to broadcast, the democracy, the economic progress, the removal of the debt burden, the visionary plan that we have to modernize Guyana. These were not always there. Some people have become complacent and take these things for granted,” His Excellency said.

Such reflections are not important because the PPP/C is stuck in the past, but rather form a basis for comparisons on the records in office, comparison from which people should be able to make up their minds about who served them better.

After leaving City Halls the PPP/C entourage marched along Republic Avenue and into Robb Street before returning to Freedom House, where the Party’s leading members addressed its supporters who exceeded 3,500 and represented Party Groups from across the country. “Because we have kept the faith and hard work, we can be assured come August 28 of another PPP/C victory…we need to build on this so that by the time August 28, no home in Guyana would be immune to our message and this is a message of oneness,” he said to loud applause outside Freedom House.

The PPP/C is confident that its List and campaign has the PNCR and the AFC worried, while the other smaller parties do not stand a chance at the victory.

He also reflected on the development process embarked upon in outlying communities by the PPP/C Government over its last 14 years in Office and added “We would not promise you fancy things, but the next five years of hard work and sure progress so that your children would have a better life that we had.” He noted that the Party has expended its efforts during the past in building the foundation of development in Guyana because the PNC Administration has de-cumulated the resources of the country and instead of moving to future developments, the PPP/C has had to restore the country. He urged supporters to work hard over the next five weeks as the Party campaigns to extend its support base.

And showing enthusiasm years below his age, the Prime Ministerial Candidate Hinds echoed these sentiments and thanked the supporters for returning him as Prime Ministerial Candidate for the fourth consecutive Elections. He noted that while other Parties campaign on the platform of restoring peace in Guyana, the PPP/C has already achieved that and has “brought our people together, as well as restored the physical and social infrastructure in the country.”

The PPP/C General Secretary Donald Ramotar championed the Party’s achievements, promising a tenure in office when no one would go hungry and where the Party will forge ahead with the progress started years ago.

He dismissed efforts aimed at ruining the progress made and expressed confidence that those cock-eyed polices being promoted would not succeed.

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