People's National Congress
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The People's National Congress is a formerly socialist political party in Guyana. At the last elections, 19 march 2001, the party won in alliance with a group called Reform 41.7 % of popular votes and 27 out of 65 seats. From 1964 to 1992, the PNC dominated Guyana's politics. The PNC draws its support primarily from urban Blacks, and for many years declared itself a socialist party whose purpose was to make Guyana a nonaligned socialist state. The party was led by Forbes Burnham. After Burnham's death in 1985, President Desmond Hoyte took steps to stem the economic decline, including strengthening financial controls over the parastatal corporations and supporting the private sector. In August 1987, at a PNC Congress, Hoyte announced that the PNC renounced ideological socialism. As the elections scheduled for 1990 approached, Hoyte, under increasing pressure from inside and outside Guyana, gradually opened the political system. The 1992 elections led to a victory of the oppositional People's Progressive Party.
