GEORGETOWN, GUYANA, MAY 19TH- Guyana’s National Assembly has not held one sitting in more than three months, and an opposition political movement is now calling on the world to take notice.

The Forward Guyana Movement (FGM) has formally written to seven major regional and international organisations — including CARICOM, the Organisation of American States (OAS), the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), ParlAmericas, and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association — raising urgent concern over what it describes as a 94-day parliamentary shutdown with no constitutional nor procedural justification offered by the government.

Parliament last convened on February 14, 2026, when the National Assembly passed the annual budget. Since then, not one sitting has been called.

No formal recess resolution has been published, and no explanation has been forthcoming from the Ali administration.

FGM Leader Hon. Amanza O.R. Walton, LLM, MP, who dispatched the formal correspondence on May 18, argues that the prolonged shutdown strikes at the heart of Article 9 of Guyana’s Constitution, which vests sovereignty in the people, to be exercised through their elected representatives.

The concern deepens given Guyana’s current economic moment. The country is now awash in unprecedented petroleum revenues, making parliamentary scrutiny of public expenditure more critical than ever — yet the very institution charged with that oversight sits idle.

FGM’s letters also raise a broader model of democratic erosion, citing restricted media access to Parliament, suppressed parliamentary speech, and the failure to constitute key oversight committees — including the Public Accounts Committee — more than six months after Parliament reconvened following the 2025 general elections.
“A Parliament that does not sit cannot efficiently scrutinize public spending, represent the people, or hold authority accountable,” Walton stated. “At a time of unprecedented oil wealth, democratic supervision in Guyana should be expanding, not disappearing.”

FGM is requesting that international bodies call for Parliament’s immediate reconvening and monitor Guyana’s standards of democratic administration going forward.