Time to abandon the autocrats and embrace democracy

Dear Editor,
It was brought to my attention that one of the public commentators/part-time politicians have done a Facebook piece labelled “How are we going to share the corn in 2020?” To my mind, this Facebook piece has served to inject confusion into the timelines of Guyana’s political evolution.
No one is against a dialogue around how this corn will be shared, but this attempt by Mr Nigel Hughes to inoculate into this dialogue a school of thought that proposes that we all sit down today and talk, rather than resolve the tabulation of the results for the 2020 elections, is dangerous. Why is he not embracing the spirit of our Constitution that spells out in the preamble “We, The Guyanese People, forge a system of governance ….. based on democratic values, social justice, fundamental human rights, and the rule of law”? Why is he not allowing the principle of one man: one vote to manifest itself first before calling for talks?
For the record, in these 2020 elections, this nation went to the polls with an ethnic mix of 39 per cent Indo-Guyanese, 29 per cent Afro-Guyanese, 21 per cent Mixed Guyanese and 11 per cent Amerindians. If we are to follow the proposition of Mr Hughes it clearly spells out that there is an “African minority”. But what Mr Hughes is not telling this nation is that there is also an Indian minority of 39 per cent and if he seems to be struggling with basic arithmetic, might I share with him that 39 per cent of Guyana, who constitute the Indo-Guyanese voting population can never be 51 per cent or for that matter 53 per cent, as seems to be the final tally for the PPP/C in these 2020 elections.
Even if all of the Indo-Guyanese voted for the PPP/C on March 2, 2020 (and that was certainly not the case), the PPP/C could never have won 53 per cent of the votes. But if we want to feed Mr Hughes’s fantasy and assume that all of the 39 per cent of the Indo-Guyanese cast their ballots for the PPP/C, there was still a shortfall of 14 per cent in order to achieve the final outcome of 53 per cent for the PPP/C.
So where did this 14 per cent come from?
So in the final analysis, what is today’s reality? Today’s reality is that not only Indo-Guyanese voted for the PPP/C in these 2020 elections. I would suggest to Mr Hughes that he take some time and investigate where this 14 per cent for the PPP/C came from. It is time to abandon the autocrats and embrace democracy.

With regards,
Sasenarine Singh