“We serve all of Guyana, your future is secure” – Jagdeo to non-supporters

…says Opposition’s plans to make PPP/C minority Govt backfired

With the Peoples Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) projected to have won Monday’s elections by a landslide, General Secretary (GS) of the party Dr Bharrat Jagdeo has assured non-supporters that their futures will remain secure under President Dr Irfaan Ali’s leadership. “…to the ones who did not vote for us, we work for Guyana…We’ve always carried a national agenda, and their futures are also secure with us,” Jagdeo assured during an interview with News Source.

Commenting on Monday’s electoral process, Jagdeo said he is extremely pleased that it went smoothly. “People were allowed to vote freely…and outside of the minor glitches that we had, the elections were efficiently organised,” he noted.
GECOM has uploaded majority of the statements of poll (SOPs) on its website and INews Guyana has predicted that the PPP/C will win the General and Regional Elections, securing victories in Regions One (Barima-Waini); Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam); Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara); Four (Demerara-Mahaica); Five (Mahaica – Berbice); Six (East Berbice-Corentyne); Eight (Potaro-Siparuni) and Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo).
While noting that his party will await the official declaration from GECOM, Jagdeo reasoned that “anyone who can use a calculator would know the results”.
From his party’s internal calculations, Jagdeo explained that “the PPP will go into the National Assembly with a bigger majority than it did in 2020”.
“That’s very clear from the trend you were seeing and from the gap between our total votes and that of WIN (Invest in Nationhood), APNU (A Partnership for National Unity) and all the other small parties combined. There is a substantial difference between the votes we garnered at the elections and what they did combined. So clearly, we’ll have an increased majority in the Parliament,” he noted.

Backfired
Jagdeo also highlighted that the opposition’s plans to make the PPP/C a minority Government backfired. He noted that a “combination of things” led to WIN displacing APNU as the second ranked party in these elections.
“Now, we knew, based on our polls, we sought to signal this to APNU, several times at my press conference, I did this, that the WIN party was going to do damage to APNU. And they would do so because of a combination of things.”
“One, that there are several people in APNU who supported APNU in the past who did not want to support APNU again, and they were looking for a party that is not the PPP. So, WIN benefited from that. Secondly, they paid out a lot of money, this guy used a ton of money to induce people to vote for him. And thirdly, they were running a social media campaign based on likes, which resonated with a lot of young voters, voters who might be impressionable. And there was a large number, nearly 100,000 new voters on their list,” Jagdeo noted.
In this regard, he expressed that “Congress Place must be a very sad place today”.
Moreover, he noted that the former APNU supporters who decided to embrace the PPP/C must be extremely happy. “I’m sure that a number of people who were vilified by the APNU trolls who left APNU and came to the PPP, they must be very happy today because they came to a party that has won the elections outright and with a bigger majority in Parliament. And their party has now been reduced to number three in the Parliament,” Jagdeo said. With WIN now projected to be the main parliamentary opposition, the Vice President (VP) said Parliament will now become very interesting. “I may start going more often to Parliament to listen to Azruddin Mohamed make a speech. I’m looking forward to that,” he expressed.
“They did a great job”
Meanwhile, in addition to winning the eight regions, the PPP/C GS said the party also made other inroads, such as increasing its support in Region Nine and Eight.
For these successes, the PPP/C GS expressed thanks to the party’s supporters and members who worked tirelessly over the past few months on the campaign trail.
“They did a great job. They carried our message to the people of the country. And it’s only fitting that they are rewarded with success. And I want to express my gratitude to them,” Jagdeo said.