…says party through Mercury spinning false narrative of elections victory
IN a counter strike on Thursday, the APNU+AFC slammed the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) for utilising violent, questionable and anti-national means to grab at an elections victory which it “did not earn”.
In a scathing response to a release from the Opposition which accused the coalition of working “to peddle misinformation and advance the false narrative of its victory”, the APNU+AFC put forward that the PPP/C is trying to pin its own misdoings on the government.
The party said, on Thursday, that even while the elections were deemed free, fair and transparent by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), before the voting had concluded, it was the PPP/C — under the guidance of international company, Mercury — which declared that it had won the elections.
“The PPP/C has used its hired hack, Mercury, to spew a chronology of false narrative within Guyanese society and the international community to hurt Guyanese people and diminish our patrimony. They have called on our international partners to impose hurtful sanctions on the Guyanese people. This presumably would be punishment for the people having rejected them at the polls. We find this narrative grossly anti-national and against the spirit of the Guyanese tradition,” the released.
The APNU+AFC said that forming its plot to overthrow the electoral process, the PPP/C disrupted the tabulation for Region Four, thereby preventing GECOM from declaring the results which shows a victory for the President David Granger-led Administration.
It also rejected the claim that the coalition has launched a whispering campaign “to steal political power” noting that from the beginning of the elections the APNU+AFC has been appealing to the Guyanese public to remain calm and patient and allow GECOM to complete its obligation. “It is our fundamental belief that the people’s vote must be counted by the appropriate authority and the constitutionally permitted mechanism; and for this reason, we have maintained that GECOM must conclude its legal and constitutional mandate and declare the winner based on its SOPs,” the party stated.
“In fact, we have said consistently that the SOPs fabricated by the PPP/C must be rejected because they are bogus. How can the PPP/C produce a tally of votes based on its SOPs on February 29, 2019 for a March 2, 2020 general election and expect to be taken seriously? What could be more fraudulent than that?” It called out the Opposition on its frivolous court injunction as an obstruction tactic, the assault of school children during its violent protests and other inconveniences caused.
The APNU+AFC stated that these actions represent “a last gasp by the PPP/C to thwart the election process” and should be shunned.
Source: https://issuu.com/guyanachroniclee-paper/docs/guyana_chronicle-epaper_04_03_2020