The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Alliance for Change (AFC), Andrew Weekes has shared an online poll to gain insight into who the electorate would like to be the presidential candidate should the AFC and the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) coalesce to take on the ruling People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) at the upcoming 2025 General and Regional Elections.
Persons who favour the AFC Leader, Nigel Hughes, are asked to click: https://pollie.app/oa7v5 and those how would like to vote for the APNU Leader, Aubrey Norton, are asked to use this link: https://pollie.app/ajzzn
The poll, being conducting on the platform, “Pollie”, closes on January 31, 2025, at 11:59pm. Voters can access the results by clicking: https://pollie.app/wrmmc
While this procedure is not seen as the official method at hammering out a possible candidate, it is unclear how it will affect the ongoing talks between the two parties.
Just recently, both sides inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the objective of having a series of engagements to determine whether they will contest individually or under one banner. The MOU also prohibits actions outside of the agreed-upon methods for resolution. 
Political commentators, and even those within the parties, have opined that the major challenge to unifying the parties lies in selecting the presidential candidate. Norton has in the past, argued that his People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) is the largest opposition party and therefore, the candidate must come from within its ranks.
But the AFC Executive, at its recent meeting, threw its support behind Hughes, who has been gaining traction in some opposition quarters.
The APNU+AFC coalition won the 2015 elections but were voted out of office in 2020 amid election rigging claims and pressure from local and international organisation. Several of its members are before the courts.
