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GECOM is a national disgrace
DEAR EDITOR,
There was once a time (prior to 1992) in Guyana when animals, foreign souls and dead people voted in this country under the auspices the Elections Commission and beneficiary was the Peoples National Congress (PNC.) Today we have an entity named Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) which is responsible for the administration and conduct of elections (general and local government.) GECOM’s mandate of rolling off elections should be spontaneous under any circumstances, whether if an election falls immediately after a five year term or shorter.
The indefeasible statute remains that GECOM must always be in a state of preparedness to conduct elections as this is its only business and duty-bound to the Guyanese people to effectuate their constitutional right without fail. And, to further ventilate that it is indeed and in fact the people’s money – tax payers’ dollars which is used for such purposes.
The current situation as it relates to holding of General Elections since the successful passing of the No-Confidence Motion + Vote on December 21, 2018 by GECOM can only be described as an arrangement of deliberate manipulation of the electoral process to suit and enable the same PNC in their despicable and treacherous acts to hold on to power and government at all costs.
At this stage it is worth reflecting on some notorious events to support my narrative: 1) in 2011 General Elections, GECOM failed to tabulate 18 × official Statements of Polls (SOPs) from Region 3 in the overall elections results, 2) in 2015 General Elections GECOM facilitated countless fake statements of polls into the database of the official elections results, then claimed that they were excluded from the final results and, 3) plus the Chief Executive Officer of GECOM moved to block the PPP 2015 Elections Petition case which was denied by the High Court and is now at the Appeals Court to be heard.
And, just to caution by no means that these low and unscrupulous actions by GECOM are exhaustive.
On account of the foregoing, I can conclude beyond a shadow of a doubt that GECOM is a national disgrace and should endeavor to execute its mandate in an ethical and professional manner and legal framework in the interest of the Guyanese people and NOT to any political party.
Sincerely yours,
Paul Ramrattan
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