Latest update November 5th, 2024 1:37 AM
APNU wants original SOPs from GECOM
…as picketing exercise hits Commission
Presidential Candidate for A Partnership for National Unity Brigadier (rtd) David Granger
The picketing exercise outside GECOM yesterday
says that up to yesterday afternoon he was not in receipt of any communication from the Guyana Elections Commission with respect to his party’s proposal to make available its Statements of Poll.
“I will believe that when I see that,” Granger said. He added that he was at the time only privy to what was published in the dailies but insisted that APNU wants to have for verification, the original SOPs.
“We do not want any copies, we do not want any Compact Disks or any DVD, We want the hard copies,” said Granger.
GECOM is promising scanned copies of the statements of poll.
He said that in the absence of an all party verification and reconciliation of SOPs exercise the original SOPs by GECOM would be a good first step.
Granger said that they will be looking to hold GECOM to its word.
Meanwhile scores of APNU supporters yesterday again took to the streets, this time staging a picketing exercise at the barricades outside GECOM demanding that the results of the 2011 Regional and General Election be verified.
The party also issued a statement saying that APNU does not accept that the recent electoral process was flawless and will continue to employ every legitimate means to ensure that GECOM fulfills the elementary obligation to the nation.
“We reiterate our commitment, also, to fulfill the promises we made to the Guyanese people… We shall pursue our legislative programme to ensure that laws are enacted to provide jobs for our youth; to provide relief from the burden of taxation; to alleviate the suffering of our people; to expose and root out corruption and to eliminate discrimination and marginalisation.”
APNU says too that the elections’ results alone have not brought the change they sought and that “They are only the chance for us to make that change…That cannot happen if we go back to the way things were.”
The coalition of parties says that there can be no change without a new spirit of service and a new spirit of sacrifice.
“We must resist the temptation to resort to the sort of partisanship that poisoned our politics for decades. We will progress as one nation and as one people only within the framework of ‘inclusionary democracy’…Elections’ results, when they are verified, must open doors of opportunity to promote prosperity and good governance…Those verified results must enable us to reclaim our self esteem and to reaffirm the fundamental truth that we are, indeed, one people and one nation.”
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