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Guyana GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
Government: Parliamentary-style government based on
modified British model. Head of state executive president chosen by
fifty-three-member unicameral National Assembly. Judicial system
based on English common law.
Politics: Two major parties whose constituents
predominantly from one of Guyana's two largest ethnic groups. The
People's National Congress (PNC) headed by Hugh Desmond Hoyte
largely Afro-Guyanese; the People's Progressive Party (PPP), headed
by Cheddi Jagan, mostly Indo-Guyanese. The PNC held power from
independence in 1966 until 1992 by manipulation of electoral
process and racial politics. The PPP assumed power in October 1992
elections.
International Organizations: Member of the United Nations
and its specialized agencies, Nonaligned Movement, Commonwealth of
Nations, Organization of American States, and Caribbean Community
and Common Market.
Data as of January 1992
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