{"id":26909,"date":"2025-03-12T16:30:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T16:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=26909"},"modified":"2025-03-12T16:30:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T16:30:59","slug":"lenox-shuman-discusses-the-loss-of-trust-in-coalitions-and-third-parties-in-guyana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/lenox-shuman-discusses-the-loss-of-trust-in-coalitions-and-third-parties-in-guyana\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenox Shuman Discusses the Loss of Trust in Coalitions and Third Parties in Guyana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Lenox Shuman, former member of a coalition of small parties, recently expressed that Guyanese have lost trust in third parties and coalition politics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shuman, leader of the Liberty and Justice Party, was part of a coalition that secured one seat in the National Assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Appearing on GlobeSpan, he criticized recent coalitions, stating that these alliances have led to distrust among partners and have ultimately harmed the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shuman believes that post-election coalitions, given the challenges experienced with pre-election alliances, pose too great a risk to national development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although constitutional changes could make post-election coalitions more viable, he emphasized that human behavior cannot be legislated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shuman acknowledged that while there is room for small parties, they must remain independent and prove their worth to the Guyanese people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also pointed out that small parties do not need to form a government to fulfill their promises; they can cooperate with the current government to achieve their goals, as his party did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lenox Shuman, former member of a coalition of small parties, recently expressed that Guyanese have lost trust in third parties and coalition politics. Shuman, leader of the Liberty and Justice&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,350,351],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development","category-news","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26909","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=26909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26911,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26909\/revisions\/26911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}