{"id":47037,"date":"2018-06-29T08:34:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T12:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/?p=47037"},"modified":"2018-06-29T09:25:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T13:25:15","slug":"i-will-continue-to-lead-struggle-for-a-better-life-for-all-guyanese-jagdeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/i-will-continue-to-lead-struggle-for-a-better-life-for-all-guyanese-jagdeo\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I will continue to lead struggle for a better life for all Guyanese\u2019 \u2013 Jagdeo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026says party\u2019s democratic system of electing presidential candidate will not change<\/p>\n<p>General Secretary of the People\u2019s Progressive Party (PPP) Dr Bharrat Jagdeo has clarified that the system by which a Presidential candidate is usually selected by his party will not change.<br \/>\nAddressing media operatives at his Church Street, Georgetown office on Thursday, Jagdeo said that for almost 25 years, the Central Executive Committee of the PPP has selected the candidate but the Congress decides on the list of people who would compete for the candidacy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_47038\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47038\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47038\" src=\"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BJ-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BJ-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BJ-768x476.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BJ-1024x635.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BJ.jpg 1679w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">General Secretary of the People\u2019s Progressive Party (PPP) Dr Bharrat Jagdeo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI doubt that will change for future elections,\u201d he said, explaining that it is a democratic system which allows every nominated person the fair chance to contest for the candidacy.<br \/>\nJagdeo also addressed concerns of PPP supporters, urging them not to get worried about the future as the party plans to work even harder to ensure that they win the next elections.<br \/>\n\u201cWe are not departing the scene. We will be here to keep the party united and strong and make the party victorious,\u201d he added.<br \/>\nJagdeo, who served two terms in office as President, was effectively disqualified from serving another term after the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Tuesday ruled in favour of the state in the case of the Attorney General of Guyana v Cedric Richardson.<br \/>\nIn a statement prior, the Opposition Leader posited that he will \u201ccontinue to spearhead the Party\u2019s struggle for a better life for all Guyanese, especially the working people, the poor and the under-privileged, for racial and national unity and for victory at the polls at the next Local Government, Regional and National Elections.\u201d<br \/>\nWhen he was probed as to who the new candidate for presidency would be at a press briefing on Tuesday last, Jagdeo did not get into specifics but outlined that the candidate should be \u201chard working,\u201d have \u201cmanagement skills\u201d and be \u201ccourageous.\u201d<br \/>\nSince then young attorney-at-law and PPP member Charles Ramson Jr has publicly expressed his desire to become a presidential candidate for the party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026says party\u2019s democratic system of electing presidential candidate will not change General Secretary of the People\u2019s Progressive Party (PPP) Dr Bharrat Jagdeo has clarified that the system by which a Presidential candidate is usually selected by his party will not change. Addressing media operatives at his Church Street, Georgetown office on Thursday, Jagdeo said that for almost 25 years, the Central Executive Committee of the PPP has selected the candidate but the Congress decides on the list of people who would compete for the candidacy. \u201cI doubt that will change&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":47038,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BJ.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47039,"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47037\/revisions\/47039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}