Update from Newsroom 8th June 2020
“With the tabulation of all 2, 339 statements of recount completed on Monday morning, it has been confirmed that the PPP won the elections by 15, 416 votes; it means the party will secure 33 seats in Parliament to take a one-seat majority.
Forty-year-old Dr Irfaan Ali, who led an ambitious housing programme to give cheap land to the poor during the PPP’s previous terms in government, is expected to be sworn in as president.
APNU+AFC, which in December 2018 collapsed on a No Confidence motion just three and a half years into its government, secured enough votes to take 31 seats. The group of three parties – ANUG, LJP and TNM – which agreed to combine their votes, secured one seat.
It will be the first time since 2015 that three parties will be in the National Assembly.
The PPP secured a total of 233, 336 votes; APNU+AFC secured 217, 920 votes. Together, ANUG, LJP and TNM secured 5, 214 votes.
The District Four recount showed that Returning Officer Clairmont Mingo declared figures that were heavily inflated to give APNU+AFC victory.
The recount votes will now have to be certified. That is expected to be done by the end of Tuesday.
Once all the certificates are in, the Chief Elections Officer, Keith Lowenfield has to provide a report to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). This report will contain the total votes cast for each party and will include a summary of the observation reports from the statements of recount.
Lowenfield has until June 13 to do so. The Commission, consisting of the chair, Justice Claudette Singh and three commissioners each from the PPP and APNU+AFC, will then deliberate on it. They have until June 16 to ask Lowenfield to prepare a final report for them to declare the results of the elections”
FOR ALL THOSE WHO HAVE FOLLOWED UPDATES AND KEPT UP WITH THE CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE WE SHOULD ALL AGREE THAT, ALTHOUGH THIS PETITION HAS SERVED TO JOIN THOUSANDS OF GUYANESE AND DIASPORA ALONG WITH ORDINARY CITIZENS OF THE WORLD TOGETHER, THE COMING DECLARATION OF THE CORRECT RESULTS FROM THE 2020 GUYANA NATIONAL AND REGIONAL ELECTIONS OF 2ND MARCH 2020 WIL BE MADE BY 16TH JUNE 2020 THE LATEST. THERE IS STILL A HARDCORE FRAGMENT OF PNCR THAT MAY STILL TRY TO DISRUPT THIS BUT WE SHALL PRAY FOR A PEACEFUL TRANSITION.
IN THE MEANTIME THIS PETITION HAS RUN ITS COURSE AND WAS EXPOSED AT NATIONAL LEVEL IN BOTH THE USA AND UK (ALONG WITH MANY OTHERS) AND HOPE THAT THE PRESSURE BOUGHT BY THE DIASPORA THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA AND PROTESTS HAVE HELPED OUR MOTHER COUNTRY ALONG IN THE FIGHT FOR DEMOCRATIC JUSTICE - THE NEW MULTI PARTY STATE IS THE WAY FORWARD AND HANDS ACROSS THE AISLE ARE NEEDED NOW TO GROW A UNITED COUNTRY AND PEOPLE FOR THE FUTURE.
The picture I have used is neither of the main parties as both created the situation that led to this confusion and their followers need to consider attributes of the smaller younger parties when considering how the future should be shaped!! The future has a much amended constituen and the makeup of GECOM must reflect the six races and cross parties of Guyana if we are to prevent this fiasco again.
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