We could see a repeat of what happened during the Region 4 count. PPP operatives could storm the location and irrevocably contaminate the documents. With the recount compromised, and no legal path to government existing, there could be anarchy.
Stop the Recount: it is time for a Government of National Unity.
The only practical way forward is to swear-in President Granger, establish a Government of National Unity, and embark on a constitutional reform process. A recount could be undertaken when it is safe to do so. Prior political agreement should determine how we handle the outcome of the recount.
THE OAS HAS COMPROMISED ITSELF
Despite allegations and complaints of irregularities committed by PPPC operatives (including demands for recount) by the APNU/AFC vis-à-vis several electoral Districts including Districts 2, 3, and 6, no mention, enquiries, or strong statements of condemnation were made by the OAS.
GECOM CANNOT VIOLATE THE LAW TO FACILITATE A RECOUNT
In my view, Article 162 (1) (b) authorizes GECOM to instruct persons within its constitutional remit, or to take any action necessary, to ensure that an elections is administered fairly, impartially and in compliance with, and fidelity to, extant law. It doesn’t not empower GECOM to make new law, or amend, nullify, disregard or supersede existing law, in order to abrogate other statutes.
PPP KNOWS RECOUNT WILL GIVE APNU-AFC A WIDER MARGIN OF VICTORY
They know a forensic audit will reveal the illegal things they did in every election since 1997. Note as well, they know what they did while they controlled GECOM and the then Chief Elections Officer, Gocool Boodhoo. Times have changed. the Elections Commission is an independent body. Or is it a case of do sah nah like sah? Do not worry, yah do sah but we nah like dah.
The PPP running from a national recount.
It is also interesting that the PPP did not make the call to abort the national recount it self. It used one of its puppets to make the call. They know full well that they couldn’t agree to a national recount and then condemn it as “ a waste of time. “ But since when principles matter to hypocrites? Or is it a case of barefacedness that not even a hypocrite will try? I think it is the latter. Let us forensically audit every box and let the truth about PPP rigging come out. I believe at the end of the process the APNUAFC will win with a wider margin.
CGID SLAMS PRIME MINISTER ROWLEY’S CRITICISM OF GUYANA’S APPEAL COURT RULING
Burke, however, repudiated Rowley comments as “misguided.” He said the Prime Minister should have “seized himself of the facts of the CARICOM initiative, the relevant laws of Guyana and the nature of the Court ruling, before he rushed out to make uninformed comments about the ruling.” Burke contended that “Mr. Rowley should focus on the affairs of Trinidad & Tobago and his upcoming elections and stop meddling in Guyana’s internal politics.”
It is time we put systems in place to shut down the country.
If we fail to mobilize the needed equipment, and implement the needed social distancing measures we could approach the United States worse case scenario of 0.8% of the population. That would be 6,000 deaths as a result of COVID-19. This is a national security crisis.
How are we going to share the corn 2020.
It was late in the day when Desmond Hoyte said he had come around to the idea of a change in the constitutional arrangements in the country
How long more can the PPP hoodwink world powers?
The no confidence motion cases saw PPP lawyers eloquently and vociferously argued that Charandass Persaud’s election to Parliament can only be challenged by way an elections petition. Chief Justice Roxanne George and the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) agreed and ruled in their favor. Now, in 2020, they’ve come to the court with reverse argument.