With its main goal being shared executive governance to end decades of ethnic insecurity, A New and United Guyana (ANUG) yesterday entered the political fray with what it said was a legally enforceable pledge not to coalesce with any of the major parties to secure a role in government.
“In order to demonstrate that we are not just another political party and that we are serious about what we say, we now make two main commitments. (1) Our party undertakes that it will never enter a coalition with any other political party or any of its members for the purpose of securing a role in government. (2) From the first day of taking constitutional office, or being able to otherwise influence governmental policy, we will work to establish shared executive power and within one month of being able to do so we will set about the constitutional reform process to make the necessary changes in the constitution,” the group said in a statement that accompanied its launching at Moray House in Georgetown yesterday afternoon.
“We will not join either of the political parties to go into government,” one of the founders, Senior Counsel Ralph Ramkarran, said at the launch.