…Chief Justice to rule today on court’s jurisdiction to hear ongoing election matters …GECOM’s lawyer says challenge to declaration of results by opposition must come by way of elections petition By Svetlana Marshall Chief Justice, Roxane George-Wiltshire, will, today, rule whether the High Court has jurisdiction to hear an application intended to block the declaration […]
THE United Republican Party (URP) Leader and Presidential Candidate Dr. Vishnu Bandhu is calling on the two major political parties to put away the decades-long ‘winner-takes-all’ political tradition and establish a National-Front Government whereby shared governance will be the order of the day. Dr. Bandhu in a letter to the Editor in Chief of the […]
…urges PPP Presidential Candidate Irfaan Ali Presidential Candidate of the PPP/C Dr Irfaan Ali has said that the results of the recount confirmed what his party has been saying that the won the elections. Following the completion of the last ballot box on Sunday at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC), supporters of the party […]
…Coalition says several other steps required before declaration THE recount process has uncovered evidence of massive electoral fraud affecting over 84,000 votes, the ruling APNU+AFC coalition said on Sunday as GECOM wrapped the month-long recounting of votes for the March 2, 2020 elections. “Tabulation is not Validation: once only valid votes are counted the coalition […]
Dear Editor,THE recent statement on the recount process by the Organisation of American States (OAS) that, “ A declaration based on these results would lead to the installation of a legitimate government” is that organization’s opinion. However, it is another clear demonstration that the OAS is not an impartial observer of the Guyana election process […]
THE last day of the national recount of the votes cast at the General and Regional Elections went no different from the days before, as more irregularities and grounds for considering the elections fraudulent, were detected. At the end of Sunday, several instances were disclosed to this publication. At Enmore/ Hope Primary School, ballot box […]
…important task of validating votes, study of observation report to begin THE Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), on Sunday completed the national recount of ballots cast at the 2020 General and Regional Elections with the tabulation process of said ballots likely to be completed today. Sunday saw the completion of recount of the remaining 74 ballot […]
Dear Editor, BHARRAT JAGDEO, the PPP, and others at home and from abroad have been using every available medium to communicate their preferred outcome of our March 2 elections. But none of them, I think, would have advanced the same arguments if adherence to electoral democracy were their paramount interest. Their mantra, before the recount […]
…CEO to continue probe into missing documents THE A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) has expressed disappointment over a decision of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to tabulate votes from 29 ballot boxes that had none of the statutorily required documents. The documents were discovered missing on June 4 and 5 […]
THE Private Sector Commission (PSC) and the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), on Tuesday, called on political parties and their supporters to respect the rule of law and the basic fundamentals of the democratic process. In a statement, on Tuesday, the PSC said it has taken note of a countrywide protest which was conducted on Monday […]