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    General elections were held in Guyana on 28 November 2011. The result was a victory for the People's Progressive Party/Civic, which won 32 of the 65 seats...
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    Early general elections were held in Guyana on 11 May 2015, alongside regional elections as a result of President Donald Ramotar proroguing the National...
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    General elections were held in Guyana on 28 August 2006. They were initially scheduled for 4 August, but were moved to 28 August after President Jagdeo...
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    Forbes Burnham (category Guyanese Methodists)
    the 2020 Guyanese general election. Support for the two parties continues to follow the racial divide between Afro-Guyanese and Indo-Guyanese. Burnham's...
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    Mark Anthony Phillips (born 5 October 1961) is a Guyanese politician and retired military officer who is the prime minister of Guyana and first vice president...
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    Irfaan Ali (category Guyanese politicians of Indian descent)
    challenges regarding the integrity of the election and a recount of all electoral ballots. Ali was born to an Indo-Guyanese Muslim family in Leonora, a village...
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    vacanies at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) following the fallout and misconduct of the 2020 Guyanese general election and the COVID-19 pandemic...
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    Burnham-led faction won three. Following the elections, Burnham's faction left the party to establish the Afro-Guyanese-dominated People's National Congress (PNC)...
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    Sam Hinds (category Guyanese people of African descent)
    Samuel Archibald Anthony Hinds (born 27 December 1943) is a Guyanese politician who was Prime Minister of Guyana almost continuously from 1992 to 2015...
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  • Alliance For Change called for a ban on Venezuelans with Guyanese citizenship from voting in elections, as well as not granting citizenship to more people...
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    Cheddi Jagan (category Guyanese democracy activists)
    was elected president in the 1992 Guyanese general election, which was regarded as the first "free and fair" election since 1964. Cheddi Berret (Anglicized...
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  • implemented and new elections set for October 1964. As Jagan feared, the PPP lost the general elections of 1964. The politics of aapan jaat, Guyanese Hindustani...
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    leaders, would afford black Temple members a peaceful place to live. Later, Guyanese Prime Minister Forbes Burnham stated that Jones may have "wanted to use...
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    Janet Jagan (category Guyanese women writers)
    (née Rosenberg; 20 October 1920 – 28 March 2009) was an American-born Guyanese politician who served as the President of Guyana, serving from December...
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    Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) narrowly won the elections. He represented the alliance of Afro-Guyanese parties. In May 2015, David Granger was sworn is...
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    Elections in Guyana take place within the framework of a multi-party representative democracy and a presidential system. The National Assembly is directly...
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    David Lammy (category English people of Guyanese descent)
    was born on 19 July 1972 in Whittington Hospital in Archway, London, to Guyanese parents David and Rosalind Lammy. He and his four siblings were raised...
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    used by President Irfaan Ali Lost confidence vote on 21 December 2018; see 2020 Guyanese general election World Statesmen – Guyana Rulers.org – Guyana...
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    David A. Granger (category Guyanese people of African descent)
    David Arthur Granger (born 15 July 1945) is a Guyanese former politician and retired military officer who served as the ninth president of Guyana from...
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    Desmond Hoyte (category Guyanese people of African descent)
    General Council of the People's National Congress. In 1966, he was appointed to the National Elections Commission, which supervised the 1968 Guyanese...
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    Bharrat Jagdeo (category Guyanese Hindus)
    Bharrat Jagdeo (born 23 January 1964) is a Guyanese politician who has been serving as Vice President of Guyana since 2020, in the administration of President...
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    Charrandas Persaud (category Indo-Guyanese people)
    wasn't receiving due credit for his campaigning work. At the 2015 Guyanese general election, Persaud was elected to represent Region 6, East Berbice-Corentyne...
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    Caribbean Community (category United Nations General Assembly observers)
    estimated 50,000 Guyanese had migrated to Suriname by 1986 In 1987 an estimated 30–40,000 Guyanese were in Suriname. Many Guyanese left Suriname in the...
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    2020. "Guyanese fishermen charged in Venezuela". Guyanese Chronicle. 26 January 2021. "UPDATE 2 –Venezuela says it has released detained Guyanese fishermen"...
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    Donald Ramotar (category Guyanese politicians of Indian descent)
    Ramotar (born 22 October 1950) is a Guyanese politician who was President of Guyana from 2011 to 2015. He was also the General Secretary of the People's Progressive...
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    government of Prime Minister Forbes Burnham following the 1968 Guyanese general election. The Guyanese government was in the process of creating a commission...
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    was established in January 1989 as Guyanese Action for Reform and Democracy (GUARD). It contested national elections for the first time in 2001, when it...
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    480 Food for Peace programme. It is now supplied on a grant basis. The Guyanese currency generated by the sale of the wheat is used for purposes agreed...
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    Mohabir Anil Nandlall (category 21st-century Guyanese lawyers)
    Attorney General and Member of Parliament PPP/C when they were in the opposition. After the PPP/C won a long and arduously contested elections in 2020...
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    Rise Organise and Rebuild Guyana (ROAR) was an Indo-Guyanese political party in Guyana led by Ravi Dev. ROAR was established as a political party in 1999...
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