Since about 2000 the Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) has been using all manner of undemocratic and discriminatory means to force Africans into its ranks or migrate. But the ethnic political situation in Guyana is coming to a head as that party comes under pressure from those who facilitated the transfer of power to it in 2020insist that Guyana’s winner-takes-all political system be reformed and the framework for an inclusive functioning democracy be created before the next election.As a result, the PPP has become frantic: we have seen its undemocratic meanderings during the last local governments, its ministers now openly informing the public that it needs to vote for the PPP to receive community services, its openly attacking IDPADA-G, whose pro-African objectives contradict those of the PPP, President Irfaan Ali’s award-winning spectacles, visits to barbershops and African Guyanese areas in New York, etc.
