Yearbook 2019
Guyana. According to
CountryAAH, the vote of no confidence in December 2018
against President David Granger's government was declared
valid by the Supreme Court only in March. But after a report
by the opposition to the Caribbean CCJ, in mid-June, the CCJ
ruled out the decision and forced the president to announce
new elections. The date for the new election was still
unclear at the end of the year.
The course of events in the distrust issue reflected the
great ethnic divide in the country between Afro-Guyanans and
Indoguyanans and their respective political parties - the
People's National Congress/Reform (PNC/R), which holds
the government, for the former and the Alliance for Change
(AFC) for the latter. For example, the two Afro-Guyanese
judges in the Supreme Court wanted to reject the statement
of disbelief while the Indoguyan wanted to approve it.
The political deadlock prevented Congress from enacting
new laws governing the oil industry. The US oil company
ExxonMobil, which in 2015 discovered oil deposits of the
equivalent of three quarters of a million barrels a day,
wanted to start the recovery as early as 2020, which would
triple Guyanese GDP in the next five years. It was
considered to explain the political battle because the
government that governs in the coming years will have large
assets to spend on electoral-friendly reforms.
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