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Mar 22, 2025 Editorial, News

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Kaieteur News- The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) is losing people in a steady trickle. Some observers would say faster than the party could count. It is not disillusioned members from the rank and file, but those who have grown up with the party, and gave a significant portion of their lives to it. There are high profile figures, who have their own group of followers in the PNCR, whose disappointment is sure to grow more pronounced in days ahead. The question on the lips of many is who will be the next stalwart to call it quits and walk away from the PNCR. Strangely, as the PNCR loses some who have been part of its backbone, the leader of the party, Aubrey Norton, presents an untroubled face to the watching public.

“I’m not concerned at all. When I became leader of the party, they were not active at all, and were not as active and in all communities as we are.” The PNCR, however, doesn’t have a history of losing so many people in such a short time. Today, some of its own people, those that many outsiders had considered to be inseparable from the PNCR, other than by passage from this life, are jumping ship. Somehow, Norton says that he is “not concerned at all.” He has to be existing in some type of fantasyland, given the message that these veteran and once trusted departures deliver. Some of them have not gone quietly into the night, but have stated the reasons for their leaving in the clearest and sharpest terms.

Among those are that the party has lost its way, and is even directionless. Another is that there is general disgruntlement with the leadership of the PNCR as it stands today. Moreover, almost all of these conspicuous defections from the PNCR have occurred under his watch. None of this should be comforting to the party, yet the Leader of the Opposition claims that he is unfazed. It could be that either he is putting on a brave face for public consumption, and group reassurance, or that he is fooling himself. He may have fallen into that trap that has hurt many leaders who don’t listen to anyone but themselves. He has come to have the fullest faith in his own shaky narrative, and gives the shortest thrift to those who offer timely warnings.

PNCR Leader Norton had another card up his sleeve relative to the departures. “They were not active at all…not as active and in all communities as we are.” We believe that Aubrey Norton, a longstanding political presence in Guyana, knows better, but is talking a good game, which only he, the leader, is now playing. Each one of the more notable PNCR departures have their own constituency that believes in them, because they have been with them from the inception. When people of that standing in the party leave, and for their publicly stated reasons, they leave behind those who may look poorly at Mr. Norton’s leadership. Truth be told, they may even be angry at him for being responsible for one of their own abandoning the party and, in effect, left them hanging. The fact that there is this leadership posture of not being concerned flies in the face of logic, and indicates that Norton could be blowing hot air on this issue of losing senior people.

It should be alarming to the PNCR and Norton that known members are not just giving up on both, but that they are openly joining hands with the PPPC Government. If that is not a slap in the face of the present PNCR leadership, then we don’t know what qualifies. In this crucial year, one with elections looming, it is the worst time to lose marquee names to the competition. That has to hit where it hurts, but there is Norton presenting an unruffled appearance, as though defections of senior people are part of the routine. It seems that the Opposition Leader gets better at burying his head in the sand in his efforts to avoid reality. The PNCR is bleeding at the worst time. His leadership is ripped by his own, and that speaks its own elections language.

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