Neither history nor law is safe under APNU/AFC

Dear Editor,
Assumedly, Mr Khamraj Ramjattan, having once argued in a column for a section of the media that no one thinks things through anymore, has deliberated well before asserting in a brief letter that retired Major General Joseph Singh ought to follow the law in his call for a recount of votes. A few remarks to the AFC Leader are warranted.
First, his strong inference is that the Leader of the PNCR is in control of the party, and all plans hatched to undermine the electoral process are tied to him. This conflicts with caretaker President Granger’s mantra of non-interference with GECOM.
GECOM’s leadership is the coalition’s trojan and hub for what Mr Ramjattan’s refers to as a “presumption of regularity” at GECOM, but what is really electoral mischief. Sir, one is beyond what seems mere “suspect,” to a strong indication of continuing fraud as evidenced by an official GECOM document signed by the Chairperson of the PNCR.
Secondly, Mr Ramjattan wants the public to take refuge in the “law and history” to overcome the recount impasse. With all due respect, neither law not history is safe with the coalition. The AFC party leader himself is cherry-picking his flavours with both.
Having completed its assault on Guyana’s parliamentary democracy with the NCM, the coalition is now delivering a thorough shellacking to the country’s electoral process. Visibility is no deterrence—the public is invited to swear in an illegal President with the usual pomp, then petition for a belated recount.
The AFC Leader sped past 2015 and refers to the 1997 elections as his legal refuge. Not so fast, brethren. The “history” of 2015 is a lesson that once President Granger is sworn in illegally, that is likely to be the end of the 2020 elections. Where was the “law” in 2015 or 2016? Why the silence about the 2015 petition that was handed a slow death?
Current events create reasonable inferences that President Granger and the coalition are responsible for chasing the “law” from the courtroom and stealing the 2015 elections. Mr Ramjattan has been and now is a participant of the rigging machinery.
Third, the AFC Leader left a critical part of elections history in the dustbin to facilitate his ascendency to High Office. In 2015, he rebuffed concerns raised about the PNCR in light of the party’s fetish for vote theft. He accused critics of engaging in “rear view” politics, saying this was a new PNCR that deserved a chance, and voters must move on.
Fair enough. Yet, here Guyana is once again. In five years the PNCR has rigged, arguably, two elections. Sir, they did not even need to “Balkanize” the votes. It is clear: the PNCR is interested in absolute political power, not elections, power-sharing, and certainly not democracy. This is why Mr Ramjattan and the PNCR must be resisted.
In order to maintain absolute power and succeed at electoral fraud, a new generation of PNCR supporters is being taught that theft is right and their degradation by the party is necessary. Thousands danced and sang about two flawed declarations by the Region Four RO.
It was the theatre of the macabre where ordinary voters are played for fools by the PNCR but it is acceptable for the group vote. Same old story. No less a person than the eminent Martin Carter wrote about this sub-human treatment of Blacks by the PNCR and Forbes Burnham to further the party’s aims.
This can be found in a volume of the Kyk-Over-Al publication issued, which celebrated some of the national poet’s writings.

Sincerely,
Rakesh Rampertab