{"id":26511,"date":"2025-02-09T03:14:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T03:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=26511"},"modified":"2025-02-09T03:14:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T03:14:20","slug":"afc-apnu-accord-already-facing-struggles-says-afc-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/afc-apnu-accord-already-facing-struggles-says-afc-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC-APNU Accord Already Facing Struggles, Says AFC Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Samuel Sukhnandan | January 22, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Early discussions between the Alliance for Change (AFC) and the People\u2019s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) are already on the brink of collapse, with AFC Leader Nigel Hughes describing their recent agreement as being on &#8220;life support.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two parties, which formally split in 2022 following their loss in the 2020 elections, had recently reopened talks in hopes of forming a new alliance ahead of the 2025 elections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, things have quickly taken a turn for the worse, as Hughes held an emergency press conference on Tuesday night to address concerns surrounding the coalition negotiations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hughes outlined that both parties have until March 31 to decide on the future of the partnership. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, he emphasized that the AFC would be prepared to contest the upcoming elections independently if an agreement is not reached by that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The agreement signed between the two parties is described as exploratory, with Hughes stressing the importance of trust and confidentiality in any future collaboration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that while the negotiations are ongoing, there are reports suggesting that Aubrey Norton is being considered as the APNU+AFC presidential candidate, despite Hughes&#8217; formal endorsement as the AFC\u2019s presidential candidate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The AFC and APNU had previously signed the Cummingsburg Accord in 2020, which led to the formation of the coalition government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the AFC later expressed dissatisfaction with being sidelined in the government, which ultimately collapsed in 2018 following a no-confidence vote triggered by a former AFC MP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hughes revealed that the AFC&#8217;s negotiator in this current arrangement is Jamaican businessman and PNP activist Alston Stewart. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the March deadline fast approaching, the future of the AFC-APNU alliance remains uncertain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Sukhnandan | January 22, 2025 Early discussions between the Alliance for Change (AFC) and the People\u2019s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) are already&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26512,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26511\/revisions\/26512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}