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Govt. objects to UNDP engaging GECOM over elections disputes
Government has issues with the procedure taken by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Cabinet Secretary,
Dr. Roger Luncheon
to facilitate a high-level panel of eminent persons, to assist with mediation and electoral disputes resulting from the May 11 General and Regional Elections.
Head of the Presidential Secretariat and Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon explained Friday that whilst the initiative is not without merit, UNDP should have been seeking to engage central government instead of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to get buy-in for the initiative.
“The procedure ought to be UNDP’s approaching Central Government on these matters, instead of an independent original foray to GECOM; furthermore the administration contends that this is not exactly GECOM’s cup of tea.”
According to a Government statement, Dr. Luncheon during his weekly press briefing pointed out that GECOM is constitutionally charged with managing elections and this venture into mediation of possible conflicts arising during or as a result of the elections “is not GECOM’s business.”
”So where the eminent personalities or eminent persons’ initiative is concerned, the PPPC Administration contends that it is misdirected to GECOM in the first place and should be brought to Central Government with whom UNDP should and must engage,” he said.
According to Dr. Luncheon, historically this is the way it has been, and that any stakeholder approaching Central Government on initiatives of this sort would then be visited with some sort of response and on the basis of that response would then proceed with its proposed initiative.
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