Dear Editor,
All things considered, Bharrat Jagdeo attempted to gain a third term Presidency by hiring Mercury Public Affairs to bribe and coerce several persons associated with a number of foreign and domestic organisations to align their pronouncements and actions regarding the Guyana’s March 2, 2020 elections, to that of the People’s Progressive Party March 2, 2020 election campaign and subsequently narratives regarding the national recount.
Readers would do well to recall that a matter was filed in Guyana’s High Court by one Cedric Richardson and taken up by the PPP. They argued that a third-term Presidency was unconstitutional even though Guyana’s Constitution, the Supreme Law of the Land, states that no one person shall be President for more than two terms. Although Mr. Jagdeo denied he had any interest in a third term on several occasions on various media platforms, he and the PPP still financed his initial attempt to disregard Guyana’s Constitution.
If Mr. Jagdeo had gotten his way, that is, if the Appeal Court ruled that valid and invalid votes are one in the same, this would have started the descent into chaos again for Guyana. This essentially would have made free and fair elections a thing of the past in Guyana since, essentially, this ruling would have given equal credibility and weight to fraudulent and valid votes. What this would have done is to deny Guyanese any meaningful say in future elections. Additionally, this would have paved a way for Bharrat Jagdeo to be President from behind the scenes, surely the vast majority of right-thinking Guyanese understand that Irfaan Ali and Mark Phillips were collectively nothing more than a front, while Mr. Jagdeo and Mr. Nandalall were the ones behind the scenes deciding on policy and other matters.
Sincerely
R. Chung-A-On
Source: https://issuu.com/guyanachroniclee-paper/docs/guyana_chronicle_e-paper_6-24-2020