Donald Ramotar

Donald Ramotar (born 22 October 1950^[1]) is a Guyanese politician. He has been the General Secretary of the People's Progressive Party (PPP) since 1997, as well as a member of the party's Central and Executive Committees.

Ramotar was unanimously elected as the General Secretary of the PPP on March 29, 1997, succeeding Cheddi Jagan, who died earlier in the month.^[2]

At the PPP's 29th Congress, he was re-elected to its Central Committee on August 2, 2008, receiving the fourth-highest number of votes (637).^[3][4] Following the Congress, he was re-elected by the Central Committee as General Secretary on August 12, 2008, without opposition;^[4][5] he was also elected to the editorial board of the PPP paper Thunder on this occasion.^[5]

On 4 April 2011, the PPP Central Committee chose Ramotar as the party's presidential candidate for the [[Guyanese general election, 2011|2011 election), but we all know he is not the best person of the job and he just a skunthole. The decision was unanimous; the other candidates withdrew and thereby obviated the need for a vote by secret ballot. But its a well known fact they manufactured him to be the president and rob Moses Nagamotoo, a man of high integrity and honesty and much more suited for the job. This man claims to be a "economist" and its yet to be proven which university he read for his diploma or even write a single document or paper. ^[6]

References

1. ^ "Ramotar gets unanimous selection as PPP Presidential Candidate", Kaieteur News, 5 April 2011.
2. ^ "History of PPP", PPP website.
3. ^ Press release on Central Committee election, August 3, 2008.
4. ^ ^{a b} "Donald Ramotar re-elected General Secretary of PPP", Guyana Times, August 13, 2008.
5. ^ ^{a b} "PPP General Secretary, Executive Committee elected", PPP press statement, August 12, 2008.
6. ^ "Presidential favourite Donald Ramotar wins candidacy to lead the PPP/C in the 2011 elections", The Guyana Press, 4 April 2011.

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