The APNU+AFC coalition government’s shutting out of smaller parties’ input in decision making and attacking constructive criticisms from its supporters not only stifles the coalition’s growth but is giving the opposition positive political artillery.
This is the view of Working People’s Alliance executive David Hinds, who yesterday bemoaned the attitude taken by David Granger-led APNU+AFC government which he charges has “stifled internal diversity of opinion within the party” by allowing for just a few Cabinet members to make decisions.
“The coalition parties must be empowered and energised. A big error of the government is the attempt to run the coalition as a One-Party government. When you have parties with polar-opposite ideological orientations as the PNC and the WPA and with different ethnic bases as the APNU grouping and the AFC, such an approach is bound to be disastrous,” Hinds told Stabroek News, repeating sentiments he expressed in his column in yesterday’s Guyana Chronicle.
“In the end governments govern, but parties