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Good and Green Guyana (GGG) was a political party in
Guyana Guyana ( or ), officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern mainland of South America. Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". The capital city is Georgetown. Guyana is bordered by the ...
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History

The party was established in 1994 by former Prime Minister
Hamilton Green Hamilton Belal Green (born 9 November 1934) is a Guyanese politician who served as the fourth Prime Minister of Guyana. He is the first and only Muslim Prime Minister of Guyana, along with being the first and only Muslim Prime Minister in the W ...
after he was expelled from the People's National Congress,GUYANA-POLITICS: A Party in Search of its Former Glory
IPS, 16 July 1996
and was initially named the Forum for Democracy, before becoming Good and Green Georgetown. The 1994 Georgetown City Council elections saw GGG defeat the PNC and PPP, allowing Green to become mayor. In 1995 the party was renamed Good and Green Guyana. In the 1997 general elections it received only 0.4% of the vote and failed to win a seat. Nohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', pp366-368 It did not contest any further elections.Nohlen, p365


References

Defunct political parties in Guyana Political parties established in 1994 1994 establishments in Guyana {{Guyana-party-stub