OAS says recounts so far credible

With days left in the National 2020 elections recount, the Organization of American States General Secretariat thursday night sent out a statement commending the recount process but also highlighting Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM’)s refusal to release statement of polls. “Despite some inconsistencies,” the statement read, “in the electoral materials reviewed during the recount, as is normally the case in any electoral process, the OAS Mission has no reason to doubt that the results emanating from the recount will be credible. A declaration based on these results would lead to the installation of a legitimate government.” The OAS said that their observers have been at the recount daily and have reported that the process was done

“in a professional, transparent and impartial fashion.” It lamented however that GECOM’s consistent refusal to provide original SOPS as legitimately requested. The Organisation recalled the agreement between President David Granger and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo to invite highlevel CARICOM scrutineers and to accept the recount results as final. (Kaieteur News)