The Guyana Action Party is a political party

Political party

A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...

 in Guyana

Guyana

Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...

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In the 2001 legislative elections

Guyanese legislative election, 2001

General elections were held in Guyana on 19 March. The result was a victory for the People's Progressive Party, which won 34 of the 65 seats. Voter turnout was 91.7%.-Results:...

, the party formed an alliance of the Guyana Action Party with the Working People's Alliance

Working People's Alliance

-History:The party was established in 1974, as an alliance of the Working People's Vanguard Party, the Association for Cultural Relations with Independent Africa, the Indian Political Revolutionary Associates and Ratoon, and became a political party in 1989. The party first contested national...

 won 2.4 % of the popular vote and 2 out of 65 seats. In the 28 August 2006 elections the party allied itself with the Rise Organise and Rebuild Guyana

Rise Organise and Rebuild Guyana

Rise Organise and Rebuild Guyana is a political party in Guyana. It first contested national elections in 2001 when it received 0.9% of the vote and won a single seat. For the 2006 elections it formed an alliance with the Guyana Action Party, which received 1.2% of the vote and won one seat.-...

Movement forming the GAP-ROAR coalition. The party's leader is Paul Hardy. Its results are not available but it is known that it did not significantly increase its political strength.

External links

• http://www.gap-roar.org/index.htm GAP-ROAR official website