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Intervention Risks Government Support

February 2010 | Political Risk Analysis

BMI View: Domestic opposition to government intervention in the economy is becoming the biggest threat to the ruling People's Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) electoral hopes in 2011. With little chance of a constitutional amendment to allow President Bharrat Jagdeo to stand for re-election, the party will be hard pushed to regain its parliamentary majority, in our view.

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