Any delay will see Jagdeo Presidency go well into 2012 or beyond - AFC

Any delay will see Jagdeo Presidency go well into 2012 or beyond – AFC

Jul 21, 2011 News

“We wish to remind the Guyanese public that the list of electors currently being prepared is designed to capture those persons who have attained the age of 18 years on or before September 30, 2011.
Should there be no elections within 90 days of this cut-off date then the registration process will have to be reopened again to capture all those who would have reached the age of 18 years in the interim.
Any delay, therefore, will see the continuity of the Jagdeo Presidency well into 2012 or beyond. To believe that the PPP is not keenly aware of this probability is to dwell in a realm of delusion.”
This potentially complex scenario was highlighted by the Alliance For Change (AFC) at its weekly press briefing, as the party expressed disappointment at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM)’s decision to allow for the reopening of the claims and objections period for the preparation of the list of electors on the basis of a request by the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), ostensibly to avoid disenfranchisement of some seven thousand unregistered persons.
“The fact that a number of Guyanese are still without birth certificates points to administrative ineptness on the part of this government. The fact that this same ineptness may very well become the basis for a de facto third term of office for President Jagdeo adds insult to injury.”
The party emphasized that it is not convinced that the Government is truly concerned with the democratic rights of citizens, suggesting that the latest manoeuvre by the administration is “clearly motivated by other considerations”.
“The PPP is fully aware that the seemingly benign 13 days’ reopening of claims and objections will not merely push the earliest possible date of elections back from the middle of October to the end of that month as they would have the public believe, but will also extend this date well into the second half of November due to the complexity of GECOM’s work schedule.
“This will bring it dangerously close to the month of December, during which we have traditionally avoided electioneering and the holding of elections.”
The party noted that the small window of opportunity towards the end of November becomes, in effect, “the only practical option for Guyanese to go to the polls on or before December 28, in keeping with the laws of Guyana.
“This scenario is rife with possibilities for further manoeuvres and the Alliance For Change has no doubt that these will occur”.
The AFC also asserted that it was unconvinced by the words of Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon on the reopening of claims and objections that, “We are assured it can be done without violating any of the constitutional and statutory deadlines that currently exist to hold elections before the 28th of December 2011”.
The party insisted that this falls short of a commitment to ensure that elections will indeed be held by the due date.
“We therefore call on the PPP to cease this disingenuous attempt to rob Guyana of its democracy.”

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