A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) is a left-wing political alliance in Guyana.

History

The APNU was formed in July 2011 in order to contest the 2011 general elections,Commonwealth Secretariat (2012)l. ''Guyana National and Regional Elections: 28 November 2011''. Commonwealth Observer Group, consisting of the Guyana Action Party, the Guyana Association of Local Authorities, the Guyana National Congress, the Guyana People's Partnership, the Guyana Youth Congress, the

Justice for All Party The Justice for All Party (JFAP) is a political party in Guyana. History The party first contested national elections in 1997, when it received 0.3% of the vote and failed to win a seat. Nohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data hand ...

, the National Democratic Front, the

National Front Alliance The National Front Alliance is a political party in Guyana. History The party was formed on 1 December 2000 as a merger of the Guyana Democratic Party, the National Democratic Movement, the National Republican Party and the People United Pa ...

, the People's National Congress (PNC) and the

Working People's Alliance The Working People's Alliance is a democratic socialist political party in Guyana. It was a consultative member of Socialist International until 2005. History The WPA was established in 1974, as an alliance of the Working People's Vanguard Par ...

. The alliance won 26 of the 65 seats in the

National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the rep ...

in the elections.A poll 'burden' for Guyana's Opposition
Jamaica Observer, 22 January 2012 With the Alliance for Change winning seven seats, the combined opposition parties held a majority of seats in the National Assembly. However, the People's Progressive Party (which had won 32 seats) formed the government as the leader of the largest party automatically became President. Prior to the 2015 elections, the APNU formed a joint electoral list with the Alliance for Change. The combined list won 33 seats, allowing PNC leader David A. Granger to become President. In 2020, after a controversial election in which the APNU, as part of the APNU/AFC coalition, sought to win through altered poll results, the APNU was defeated and saw the Justice For All Party (JFAP) and Working People's Alliance (WPA) withdraw from the alliance. This withdrawal came after there was lack of representation on their parliamentary list for the opposition.

References

External links

Official websiteAPNU+AFC website
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