…GECOM yet to decide on way forward
Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo has once again called on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to abort the current House-to-House registration exercise and move right ahead with the claims and objections period in order to run-off elections within the constitutional timeframe.
During his weekly press briefing on Thursday, Jagdeo related that many citizens across Guyana are demanding that the Commission end the ongoing house-to-house registration exercise and begin a claims and objections period with the old voters’ list.
“People are out there waiting, the enumerators are in a limbo, Guyanese people are in limbo. The Commission said they are waiting on the Chief Justice’s ruling…”, Jagdeo fumed.
“I believe that October is a timeline because the commissioners sat and they worked at this and showed that without compromising any quality we can achieve this by the end of October,” he said.
President David Granger has indicated that he is awaiting advice from the Commission on its readiness after which he would issue a proclamation on the elections date.
The Opposition Leader also said that he and other party members believe that the plot by the APNU/AFC Government to “sanitise” his party’s supporters from the voters’ list has been foiled as a result of the recent ruling by Chief Justice Roxane George that no one can be removed from the national register, except in case where persons are deceased.
“They wanted to sanitise a lot of us from the list, so when election day comes a lot of us would have been sanitised and we won’t have had the right to vote but the ruling thwarted their plan to sanitise out of voting and they are in that little panic mode,” he said.
