The Vigilant Political Action Committee (VPAC) party has accused Amanza Walton-Desir of reneging on a binding agreement to rotate the coalition’s sole parliamentary seat among its partners.
In a statement, VPAC said the coalition arrangement under the Forward Guyana Movement (FGM) was clear: the single parliamentary seat they won would be equally rotated among the three parties. These are Forward Guyana (the leading party), Nigel London’s The People’s Movement (TPM) and VPAC.
Instead, Walton-Desir “anointed herself sole power-broker,” keeping 60 percent of the time for herself, handing 40 percent to Nigel London, and cutting VPAC out altogether, it said.
“That is not leadership. This is theft,” VPAC charged. “Walton-Desir tore up that pact the moment it suited her.”
The party also dismissed Walton-Desir’s claim that she was threatened as “a deliberate malicious lie.” VPAC insisted that at no point did its members issue threats against her.
Further, V-PAC accused Walton-Desir of weaponizing feminism by suggesting she was being targeted because she is a woman. “For months, VPAC supported Walton-Desir as a female leader. We never demanded the Prime Ministerial slot. We defended her publicly. Yet behind closed doors, she bullied partners, sidelined allies, and treated the coalition as her personal property. Now, when caught red-handed refusing to confront racism, she hides behind her skirt and plays the victim.”
They said Walton-Desir did this, in one instance, when the coalition leadership was pressed to denounce a racist public statement, accompanied with deflection from her ally Nigel London.
VPAC maintained that its concern is that Walton-Desir has abandoned her principles. “She has been exposed, for her bullying, her dishonesty, her opportunism, and her betrayal.”
