The Guiana United Muslim Party (GUMP) was a Muslim political party in Guyana.

History

The party was set up in 1964 with assistance from the

CIA The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ), known informally as the Agency and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, officially tasked with gathering, processing, ...

and the British authorities, and was led by Hoosein Ganie.Stephen G. Rabe (2006) ''U.S. Intervention in British Guiana: A Cold War Story'', Univ of North Carolina Press, p130 The American and British governments hoped the new party, together with the Justice Party (which the CIA was also funding), would take votes from the People's Progressive Party (PPP), whose left-wing leanings they were concerned about. Although the CIA estimated that the Justice Party and GUMP could win three seats in the 1964 general elections, neither did; GUMP received only 0.5% of the vote and failed to win a seat, Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', pp366-368 whilst the PPP emerged as the largest party, but was unable to form a government. In the 1968 elections it received only 0.3% of the vote and again failed to win a seat. The party did not contest any further elections.Nohlen, p365

References

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