Under the slogan “It is time,” the APNU+AFC alliance yesterday launched their campaign for the May 11 general elections and promised a new day for Guyana, unity, and a change in the local political culture while assuring that the alliance is not a short-term, office-sharing bargain.
“We have come together because the nation is at breaking point. Guyanese have been fatigued by…two decades of fickle promises, of fatuous platitudes and failed projects,” the alliance’s Presidential Candidate David Granger told a packed Savannah Suite at the Pegasus Hotel yesterday. “The APNU-AFC coalition is the boldest step taken in six decades of our political history, a step to replace political hostility with unity, to replace confrontation with cooperation, to replace dictatorship with democracy. APNU/AFC coalition has chosen hope over despair and faith over fear,” he said to applause.
Against the backdrop of the green and gold colours of the APNU and AFC draped on the wall, the alliance’s Prime Ministerial candidate Moses Nagamootoo said that it is time that meaning is given to the sacrifices and struggles of Guyanese including those of generations past. “Today, there is need for a new wave in our democracy, to inject life into our decaying political system, and to