Come the first week in May, rank and file members of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) will meet to decide the way forward for the party.
At a press conference he hosted at Freedom House today, General Secretary, Bharrat Jagdeo told the media that the party’s Central Executive Committee met on Saturday last and decided that Congress will be held in May. He did not give a date.
Congress is usually held every three years as prescribed in the party’s constitution. The last Congress was held in December 2016 when Jagdeo was elected General Secretary. The next was to be held in 2019 but this was delayed for several reasons, including the fact that the country was in election mode in 2019 due to the No-Confidence Motion. Jagdeo had said that the pandemic also caused a further delay.
Asked today if he will return as General Secretary after Congress, Jagdeo said, “It will be presumptuous of me to say I will continue as General Secretary, it’s like I already determine. I will decide whether I will contest at that time but right now I am General Secretary until those elections are held.”
At Congress, PPP is expected to elect a new 32-member Central Committee.
