Guyana Action Party

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Guyana Action Party
AbbreviationGAP
Leader Vincent Henry [1]
FoundedJanuary 1989
Ideology Indigenism
Socialism
National affiliation WPA (2001)
ROAR (2006)
APNU (2011)

The Guyana Action Party (GAP) is a left-wing [2] political party in Guyana representing the indigenous Amerindian population. [3]

History

The GAP was established in January 1989 as Guyanese Action for Reform and Democracy (GUARD). [4] It contested national elections for the first time in 2001, when it formed an alliance with the Working People's Alliance; the alliance received 2.4% of the popular vote, winning 2 of the 65 seats in the National Assembly.

The party allied with Rise Organise and Rebuild Guyana for the 2006 elections, with the combined list winning a single seat. In 2011 the party joined the A Partnership for National Unity alliance in the build-up to the elections that year.

References

  1. ↑ Chabrol, Denis (2024-08-22). "Opposition Amerindian politicians say excluded from Toshaos Conference". Demerara Waves Online News- Guyana. Retrieved 2024-11-19.
  2. ↑ "Leftist parties of Guyana". Archived from the original on 2008-01-16. Retrieved 2016-11-11.
  3. ↑ "Guyana Elections". Australian Broadcasting Corporation . 22 February 2001.
  4. ↑ Tom Lansford (2014) Political Handbook of the World 2014, CQ Press, p585
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