Presidential elections in Guyana

Title

Presidential elections in Guyana

Genre

Interview

TX Date

11 Nov 1980

Year of production

1980

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Duration

00:03:46

Description

Dr Horace Gambi(?) (or Campbell?) of the Working People’s Party in Guyana on the forthcoming presidential elections. He says 23 members of the People’s Progressive Party have been arrested in the lead-up to the election, which Prime Minister Forbes Burnham of the People’s National Congress is expected to win. Dr Gambi has urged overseas voters not to participate in what he calls electoral fraud because most of the overseas electoral register consists of non-existent people. He says the problems come at the end of the year in which opposition leader Walter Rodney was assassinated and his bodyguard Edward Dublin was shot by police. Male interviewer not identified.

Contributors

Horace Gambi(?)

Keywords

Elections; Politics; Oppression; Political corruption; Presidents; Guyana; Dictatorship; Arrests; Walter Rodney; Edward Dublin; Forbes Burnham

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