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Guyana
Index
Guyana's oldest political party, the PPP, was founded in 1950
by Cheddi Jagan as a means to push for independence. After the 1961
elections, however, the party came to represent almost exclusively
the Indo-Guyanese community. A long-time Marxist-Leninist, Jagan
declared in 1969 that the PPP was a communist party and advocated
state ownership of all industry. The PPP won elections in 1953,
1957, and 1961, but its leftist policies led to internal unrest and
opposition from the British colonial authorities
(see Preindependence Government, 1953-66
, ch. 1). The PPP had ten
National Assembly seats after the 1980 election and in the 1985
elections won eight seats.
Data as of January 1992
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