Ally Urges AFC To Rebuild After Electoral Collapse

Former Guyanese Ambassador Professor Dr Shamir Ally has delivered a sobering assessment of the Alliance For Change (AFC), declaring that the party which once helped topple the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) has squandered its political influence, lost touch with voters and now faces an uphill battle to reclaim relevance after its crushing defeat in the 2025 elections.

In a hard-hitting opinion piece published on October 31, 2026, to mark the AFC’s 21st anniversary, Ally argued that the party’s spectacular decline from a parliamentary powerbroker to an organisation without a single seat was largely self-inflicted, driven by political miscalculations, organisational weaknesses and its failure to demonstrate tangible benefits to ordinary Guyanese.

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The AFC was founded on October 29, 2005, by Khemraj Ramjattan, Raphael Trotman and the late Sheila Holder, who broke ranks with their respective political organisations to establish a third force challenging Guyana’s entrenched ethnic and winner-takes-all politics.