Edghill calls on Region 10 residents to deliver majority for Pres Ali, for PPP on RDC

In order to ensure progress and development continue to come their way, the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) is urging citizens of Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice) to vote for the cup on September 1 – for both the General and Regional Elections. The call was made by PPP/C’s Juan Edghill during an engagement with members of the business community in the region on Tuesday.
“The time when people in Region 10 were ashamed to be identified with the PPP/C is long gone,” Edghill declared. He highlighted that at the last elections, the party secured just over 3000 of the votes in the region. At this year’s polls, he said the party hopes to gain more than 11,000 votes.

“We got to bridge that gap,” Edghill said. At the 2020 General Elections, the PPP/C earned 3162 from Region 10; at the Regional Elections it got 3208.
Additionally, at the Local Government Elections in 2023, the PPP/C made significant inroads in the region – once regarded as a stronghold of the Peoples National Congress (PNC) which is now the largest party in the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU). The PPP/C’s votes in Linden moved from 402 in 2018 to 2464. As a result, the PPP earned two seats on the Linden Town Council while APNU received 14. Previously, the PPP had one seat.
Meanwhile, Edghill underscored the importance of the PPP/C winning more than just the presidency. “There’s been a blockage in Region 10 like a stonewall that we got to break down because no matter what the Government does, once the RDC (Regional Democratic Council) has that kind of thinking and mentality…and is resistant to development, what should be happening in Linden will not happen in Linden. So we don’t only want you to vote for the PPP/C or President Ali to be the President, we want you to vote for the PPP/C so that for the first time we must win the Regional Democratic Council,” Edghill, who is currently the Minister of Public Works, expressed. He pointed to the massive development taking place in the region and across the country that are as a result of direct policies, strategies and execution of the PPP/C.
He highlighted the large number of job opportunities and income earning ventures that have already been created in the last five years in the region and the many more to come under another PPP/C Administration.
“There will be zero new taxes. The mortgage interest relief that you are enjoying will continue. The income tax ceiling will grow. The minimum wage will rise,” the Minister assured.
In this regard, Edghill said “I am unashamedly asking for your vote…I want your vote for President Ali on September 1, the cup at the top and you’ll vote for the RDC, the cup at the bottom.”