Georgetown: The Alliance For Change's National Executive stated that after the expenditure of much thought on the option of becoming subsumed into what it views as largely a coalition of convenience, and not of interest, has decided that it is in the best interest of the party as well as the Guyanese people that it refrains from joining the opposition coaltion. In it's explanation of the essential reasoning which has determined this restraint, the AFC said that the first entails a point that the leadership of the party has been making repeatedly in recent weeks, i.e. the AFC was incorporated to fill a void of leadership created by the divisive, destructive and racial politics of the PPP and PNC.
The AFC sated ; "The major obstacle to Guyana's development is to be found in the divisive nature of its politics. Ever since the years leading up to the country's independence, the nation's every activity has been dominated by two political parties, the main followers of which are drawn from one or other of the two major racial groups. By and large, Indo – Guyanese support the People's Progressive Party, and African Guyanese the People's National Congress."
Because of the prevalence of fierce racial political rivalries… there has been little or no meeting of the minds between these powerful political parties on any major political, social and economic issue since Guyana became independent.
The AFC says that it firmly believes that to join up with any of these failed political behemoths is to be submerged and subsumed into that menagerie of racial and divisive politics and betrays the very philosophical premise behind the formation of the AFC.
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