{"id":26539,"date":"2025-02-09T03:35:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T03:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=26539"},"modified":"2025-02-09T03:35:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T03:35:44","slug":"jagdeo-calls-apnu-afc-agreement-tragic-and-comic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/jagdeo-calls-apnu-afc-agreement-tragic-and-comic\/","title":{"rendered":"Jagdeo Calls APNU-AFC Agreement \u2018Tragic and Comic\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>January 23, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, General Secretary of the ruling People&#8217;s Progressive Party (PPP), has dismissed the recent agreement between the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance for Change (AFC) as both &#8220;tragic and comic.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at his weekly press conference, Jagdeo expressed skepticism about the seriousness of the agreement, which was described by AFC Leader Nigel Hughes as a form of &#8220;life support&#8221; for the party. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Jagdeo, this description alone highlights the lack of trust and credibility within the coalition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s tragic&#8230; they are just supporting themselves,&#8221; Jagdeo stated, reflecting his belief that the AFC\u2019s decision to align with the larger People&#8217;s National Congress (PNC) is driven by a need to maintain some semblance of political relevance as they approach the 2025 elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the AFC has selected Hughes as its presidential candidate, the PNC&#8217;s leader, Aubrey Norton, has also been nominated for the presidential role. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Norton has insisted that, if a coalition is formed, the presidential candidate should come from the PNC, given the party\u2019s larger size.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jagdeo urged Guyanese to closely watch this development, noting its similarities to the Cummingsburg Accord signed between the APNU and AFC in 2015. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He expressed doubts that this new agreement would yield any substantial results or positive outcomes, predicting it would follow the same path as previous failed attempts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is part of an old playbook,\u201d Jagdeo concluded, suggesting that the latest political maneuvering would not significantly impact the country&#8217;s political landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 23, 2025 Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, General Secretary of the ruling People&#8217;s Progressive Party (PPP), has dismissed the recent agreement between the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26539","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\/26539","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=26539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26540,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26539\/revisions\/26540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}