The People's Democratic Movement (PDM) was a centrist 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 ...

History

The PDM was established in 1973, and contested the

general elections A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ...

later that year. It received only 0.6% of the vote and failed to win a seat. Nohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', pp366-368 In 1980 it joined the Vanguard for Liberation and Democracy alliance alongside the Liberator Party and the

Working People's Vanguard Party Working People's Vanguard Party (WPVP) was a small, Maoist political party in Guyana. It was formed in 1969 through a split in the People's Progressive Party (PPP) in the 1960s. The party was led by Brindley Benn and Victor Downer. Initially th ...

. The alliance did not contest the

1980 elections The following elections occurred in the year 1980. Africa * 1980 Angolan legislative election * 1980 Cameroonian presidential election * 1980 Cape Verdean parliamentary election * 1980 Gabonese legislative election * 1980 Guinean legislative ...

, but instead called for civil disobedience against the government.Charles D Ameringer (1992) ''Political Parties of the Americas, 1980s to 1990s: Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies'', Greenwood Publishing Group, p356 The PDM was the only party in the alliance to survive until the 1985 elections, when it received just 232 votes and again failed to win a seat. In the 1992 elections it saw an increase in its vote, but only to 270, and remained without a seat in the National Assembly. The party did not contest any further elections.Nohlen, p365

References

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