Georgetown : The Alliance For Change today voiced their disappointment in GECOM’s decision to allow the reopening of the claims and objections period for the preparation of the list of electors on the basis of a request by the People’s Progressive Party, ostensibly to avoid disenfranchisement of some seven thousand unregistered persons.
The party claims the ruling PPP is fully aware that the seemingly benign thirteen days’ reopening of claims and objections will not merely push the earliest possible date of elections back from the middle of October to the end of that month as they would have the public believe, but will extend this date well into the second half of November due to the complexity of GECOM’s work schedule. This will bring it dangerously close to the month of December, during which we have traditionally avoided electioneering and the holding of elections.
This small window of opportunity towards the end of November becomes, in effect, the only practical option for Guyanese to go to the polls on or before the 28th day of December as per the laws of Guyana. This scenario is rife with possibilities for further maneuvers and the Alliance For Change has no doubt that these will occur.
The AFC publicly calls on the PPP to cease this disingenuous attempt to rob Guyana of its democracy.
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