FRIDAY 24th March, 2023
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‘We will fight a hard campaign’ VAT INCLUSIVE
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–– PPP/C plans to contest in all Local Authority Areas; confident of track record of progress, delivering betterment, Jagdeo announces
–– as uncertainty looms in opposition’s camp By Tamica Garnett CONFIDENT of its track record, the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) is promising a robust campaign, and a determined fight at this year’s Local Government Elections (LGE), for which the party plans to contest in all of the 80
Local Authority Areas (LAA) across the country. During a press conference at the party’s headquarters, Freedom House, on Thursday, PPP/C General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo said that the party is in the final stages of putting together its list of candidates for the LGE, with plans to launch its campaign early next
month. According to Jagdeo, the party has been seeing a huge influx of persons wanting to join ahead of the LGE, and as such, is not only confident of its chances in its customary strongholds, but is optimistic of even making inroads in some of the opposition’s hotspots. “We will fight a hard campaign in every
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single one of these areas. There are some areas where we have never won, and we are hoping, politically, that the people will give us an opportunity to prove we can,” Jagdeo said.
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