Dear Editor,
In your guest editorial of February 3, 2007, “The PNC at 50”, you stated that in the 1957 elections the PNC garnered 39% of the popular vote. That is not correct; the PNC obtained 25% of the popular vote in that elections and the PPP got almost 47% of the popular vote.
More significantly however, the PPP won 9 seats versus 3 for the PNC. It is also important to note that the PPP did not contest all of the seats because it did not have the resources to mount a campaign in the interior and yet got almost half the votes.
Yours faithfully,
Suresh Dookhie
