PNC’s dossier a feeble attempt to whitewash its sordid image
Dear Editor,
Thanks to all the groups for posting this dossier for all to see how desperate the powerful PNC rigging machine have become. It is so pathetic to see them climbing down from their arrogant perch and humbling up and grovelling to influence the people they asked to butt out of Guyana’s affairs, as we are a sovereign state. They should have included some of those vulgar things they said about our international friends and partners.
By their antics since December 2018, when they were defeated in the No Confidence Vote, the PNC have done things that dug a deeper hole for their reputation with every passing day. Lacking in honesty, integrity and decency, they twice refused to hold elections in 90 days as constitutionally required, including telling the Caribbean Court of Justice to go to hell.
With the willing and conniving help of GECOM as a coup facilitator, they rigged an extra year in power, and became an illegal Government in the process, as Parliament had not extended their stay in office. (Granger should best be addressed as the illegal, lame duck Caretaker). GECOM did not meet any constitutional deadlines. Granger also flouted all constitutional deadlines, and dragged out announcing a date for election. Yet, in all of these undemocratic actions, the PPP acted in the national interest, and responded peacefully to all the PNC shenanigans, hoping that new elections would bring about resolutions.
The Guyanese people thought that the new elections would solve the problems resulting from the No Confidence Vote, and bring about stability and normalcy in the country. But little did we know that the PNC had an advanced rigging manual, and would repeat the delaying, rigging scams they pulled off in the No Confidence Motion.
Again, GECOM, dominated by PNC operatives as staff members, were a reliable ally to facilitate the PNC coup. It has been well said that if the situation were reversed and the PPP were refusing to concede, the city would have been in flames and bodily harm would have come to the PPP leadership from the usual PNC street action.
The international observer groups and embassies have appealed several times, and sounded to GECOM/PNC warnings of the urgency to facilitate a proper count and recount process in a speedy manner. How many more times do the PNC want the neutral observers to give them warnings? Does the PNC not have smart people to advise that they are playing a very dangerous game here? The GECOM Chair must know that Granger will make them the fall guy. Granger’s defense is that it’s GECOM, not the PNC, delaying or mismanaging the process. Granger would throw her under the bus, as he blames GECOM for the delay.
With Granger’s likely retirement, Alexander still thinks he can be the PNC party leader and the new Burnham, and that’s why he is acting tough and leading GECOM down the wrong path. The Chair must rein him in and do the right thing. I find it strange that the most important decision to be made by the Chair will be done by email.
The dossier is a disaster. It’s sloppy and poorly put together, and would be thrown in the trash as US legislators do not read such crappy stuff. How can they say Granger and Harmon are US citizens? (Are they?) How can they say our larwah PM is head of Government? Wouldn’t such lies in a document to be disseminated to the US Congress and others bring the whole document into disrepute? They are such bumbling, bungling, stumbling fools. I found the dossier helpful, however, as the affidavits on what happened on election day were quite revealing of how deceptive the PNC is, and it shows the collusion between GECOM and the PNC. The dossier, though puerile in concept, did show all the other nine regions used the SOPs for the count.
Using anti-communist hysteria against the PPP is hilarious given that Granger has made the most trips of any President to the communist Cuba, not the USA, for treatment and travel, and one of Harmon’s first acts was travel to communist China in search of US$5 million.
I understand the Chinese were a big funder of the PNC election campaign. Given its rhetoric on social cohesion, the anti-Muslim, anti-Hindu, and racist innuendos in the dossier are quite unfortunate; they show PNC desperation. The dossier is a waste of money, and I hope it is not our taxpayers’ money.
The PNC have only one option, and that is to stop all the delaying actions and complete the count in Region 4. Their time has come to an end, because they did a bad job. They need to be a good Opposition and work harder next time; they did not do too badly this time. We are in a “vote them in, vote them out” era.
