PPP elections petition to be filed shortly

Jun 19, 2015 News

More than a month after the APNU+AFC coalition was officially declared by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) as the winner of the 2015 general and regional elections, the PPP is yet to file its elections petition.
However, the party has assured that the petition is still underway and will be filed shortly.
During a press conference held at Freedom House yesterday, Former Attorney General Anil Nandlall maintained that the PPP will continue to deny the results of the recently concluded elections. He said too that the elections petition is still on the cards.
“I’ve already said publicly that the People’s Progressive Party is committed to the filing of a petition,” Nandlall said. He did acknowledge that the time to do so is “running”.
According to Guyana’s law, any elections petition must be filed within a specific timeframe of the publication of the election results in the Official Gazette.
“So that has happened and the time is running, so it will be filed within the prescribed timeframe,” Nandlall added. He said too, that the party’s previous request for a box by box recount has been included in the elections petition.
“The party has not been furnished with the info that the head of the list requested,” he said.
According to Nandlall, GECOM’s refusal for a full recount diminishes its credibility.
“GECOM continues to maintain resolutely that the elections process was transparent; that the results were computed accurately, lawfully and transparently, yet it absolutely and emphatically refuses to give us the information which essentially is the basis upon which the results were computed,” Nandlall said.
He continued, “They have given us a number, a total, and all we’re asking is that they give us the evidence that led you to that figure. One would have expected that to keep one’s integrity intact, GECOM would have jumped at the opportunity.”
He said too that bodies external to GECOM who would have maintained the results as accurate are not advising the elections body correctly. Nandlall opined that these agencies should advise GECOM to conduct a full recount. This, he said, would maintain not only GECOM’s integrity, but also that of external bodies.
Upon the conclusion of the 2015 general and regional elections, the PPP had emphatically stated that the elections had not been conducted freely, fairly or transparently. The party had claimed a number of inconsistencies in the entire process and requested a full recount of the more than 400,000 votes recorded.
The PPP/C government was ousted after a 23-year rule.

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