Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday confirmed that the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) had voted to erase Marxism-Leninism and Socialism from its Constitution during the recent 32nd Congress.
Speaking at the post-congress press briefing, Jagdeo emphasized that while those ideologies were removed, the party remained committed to its founding principles, political philosophy, core values, history, struggles, and achievements.
“The party’s strategic objective is to create a fair and equitable society. This objective will find expression in the establishment of a national democratic state, which is already in our Constitution, that will embrace political and ideological pluralism,” Jagdeo said. “So, what this means is that you can be anybody; you can be a person who believes in socialism… you can believe in capitalism, but you [can] have a place in the party.