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Government satisfied with outcome of LGE – Minister Trotman

Mar 25, 2016 News

Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman says that Government is “quite satisfied” with the outcome of the recently held Local Government Elections.
“We believe that the elections and results confirm that our strategy, as we advanced it, has worked,” Minister Trotman said at a post Cabinet briefing at the Ministry of the Presidency, yesterday.
“We are not here to give support to statements made by the Opposition. We concentrated our efforts on the towns, the urban centres— that strategy worked,” the Minister said. He was responding to a question posed by a reporter as to the Opposition’s conclusion that the results of the elections show that the Government is losing ground among the general voters.
Minister Trotman said too, that Government is “not at all turned-off” by what people are calling a low turnout for the elections. In fact the Minister said that Government is of the opinion that the turnout for the election was “quite average,” based on what obtained in the past and what obtains in other parts of the world.
The Minister noted that both the Government and the Opposition obviously had varying strategies and both put their strategies to the test and both perhaps would claim victory.
“We are quite satisfied with the outcome and we believe that the vision of the organisation of Guyana is actually taking root and we are well on our way to advancing our agenda,” Trotman said.
On March 18, last, Guyanese voted in the first Local Government Election after 22 years.  The Guyana Elections Commission on Monday confirmed that less than 50% of eligible voters exercised their franchise during the Elections.
507,584 persons were registered to vote in 542 constituencies across the country. Only 239,070 persons voted, representing a 47.1 percent voter turnout. The Election Commission also reported on Tuesday, that the government won most of the Municipalities, and the Opposition, the majority of the Neighborhood Democratic Councils.

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