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‘Ensure free and fair General Elections’ – PPP tells GECOM

Jan 13, 2015 News

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday called on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to spare no effort in ensuring that the upcoming General and Regional Elections are free and fair. The party also urged GECOM to carry out its functions without fear.
These calls were made by PPP General Secretary, Clement Rohee, at the party’s weekly press conference at Freedom House.
Rohee boasted that the PPP has single-handedly advocated for a voters’ list that is clean of discrepancies and will not disenfranchise any eligible Guyanese, thereby eliminating the threat of confusion on elections day.
He said, too, that GECOM must do everything possible to prepare a clean list and to edify voters of elections day practices and procedures.
As he noted that there were many flawed practices and behaviour by polling day staff in the 2011 elections, Rohee said that the PPP is wary of these ill-fated acts which the Party strongly believes were well calculated and mostly against its interest.
The General Secretary recalled “the Herstelling case of 19 rejected ballots at one polling station, reason being, failure of the Presiding Officer to stamp the ballot papers with the official stamp.”
He said that strong actions should have been taken against the workers who “took away the democratic rights of simple hard working Guyanese.
It is expected that these persons will never be considered to work with GECOM again.”
Further, Rohee renewed his long time call on GECOM to ensure that competent and qualified persons are recruited to work on polling day and that the requisite training and simulations are done to avoid the debacle of 2011.
The politician noted that his Party had raised several issues regarding the role of Information Clerks in the 2011 elections and has serious reservations on the use of these persons in future elections.
He said that the Party is of the view that the 2011 Information Clerks were ineffective and created confusion among voters on E-Day especially in Georgetown and other parts of Regions Four, Six, Seven and 10.
Rohee said that GECOM “must” revisit the roles and functions of this position and should the decision be taken to continue with Information Clerks, then these persons must be properly trained and act in a neutral manner at all times.
Rohee told the media that the PPP wants all Guyanese, in and out of Guyana, to demand that GECOM delivers on its mandate and conducts fair and transparent elections.

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