PNC/R changes age old name as the joint opposition goes in to the 2011 elections.

Georgetown: Trakkernews was reliably informed that the People's National Congress Reform, the main opposition party will soon change it's age old name, following the team up with other political oppositions ahead of this year's election. Trakkernews understand that the Joint Opposition Political Party consisting of the People's National Congress Reform(PNC/R), the Guyana's People's Partnership(GPP),  the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), National Front Alliance (NFA) and the Guyana Action Party (GAP) are expected to decide on a name called: "Partnership for National Unity" with it's symbol being Guyana's map in an opened hand. It is not clear whether the joint parties will adopt this name or another, but according to close sources this is being mooted as the best option. The People's National Congress Reform, according to some of it's supporters has taken a very big decision to change it's long standing name which was chosen by the late LFS Burnham in 1957. Acccording to history, there were two factions of the PPP: the PPP (Jaganite) and the PPP (Burnhamite) as a result of a split in the original PPP in 1955. After the elections of 1957 Mr. Burnham decided to make a decisive break with the PPP and named his Party the People's National Congress. Having lost the elections in 1957, Mr. Burnham sought to strengthen his Party by absorbing the United Democratic Party (UDP) and the National Democratic Party (NDP), which were led at the time by John Carter and Rudy Kendall, respectively. So even in history there were coalition forces as part of the main opposition. The Joint Opposition had called on the Alliance for Change to join them, but the party refused.