Imperative for GECOM Chair to lawfully declare winner without further haste
Dear Editor,
Now that CARICOM or the most “appropriate interlocutor” of the elections has issued its report, upholding the integrity of the will of the electorate as exercised in the free and fair elections held on March 2, 2020, it is imperative for the GECOM Chair to lawfully declare the obvious winner without further haste.
To be clear, the winner of the people’s confidence is the PPP/C.
It is worth repeating that seminal paragraph from the CARICOM report:
“Overall, while we acknowledge that there were some defects in the recount of the March 02, 2020 votes cast for the General and Regional elections in Guyana, the Team did not witness anything which would render the recount and by extension the casting of the ballot on March 02, so grievously deficient procedurally or technically, (despite some irregularities), or sufficiently deficient to have thwarted the will of the people and consequently preventing the election results and its declaration by GECOM from reflecting the will of the voters. The actual count of the vote was indeed transparent”.
It is also time for the incumbent de facto administration to finally respect the majority will of the people and initiate that imminent process of a
been singular in the perpetration of some of these practices in the region.
Long before COVID-19 we had become seasoned campaigners in other kinds of rackets, not least the importation by ‘hustlers’ with connections to officialdom of expired food and drugs, among other things, these rackets flying in the face of weak and powerless state agencies hopelessly inhibited by circumstances that restrain them in their ability to effectively enforce the law. All of this, provides incontrovertible evidence that the region is now firmly hitched to the international bandwagon of “fraud, bribery, theft, and other criminal practices……….for immoral gain” of which the Commonwealth Secretary General speaks and which, having regard to the advent of COVID-19 may well grow into something much more powerful.
Back in March this year a report emanating from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) declined to name specific countries in an article which sourced to the World Health Organization (WHO) the assertion that “a growing volume of fake medicines linked to the coronavirus are on sale in developing countries.” Setting those aside, INTERPOL, according
lawful transition.
In the interim and as was duly noted by CARICOM: “Any aggrieved political party has been afforded the right to seek redress before the courts in the form of an election petition”.
Yours faithfully,
Rakesh Rampertab