Georgetown: General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo said that the governing coalition, APNU/AFC realizing that the recount will inevitably show that the lost the March 2nd general and regional elections along with uncovering many of the frauds that occurred is attempting to get the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to cancel the elections.
Jagdeo said the coalition does not want the actual results to be considered and accepted by GECOM as official.
Noting that the party has maintained that it won the elections, Jagdeo said it may be puzzling to some that APNU/AFC would want to have the elections annulled.
Jagdeo called for the Declaration of Results from District Four to be discarded since its contents have been “discredited”.
“[Clairmont] Mingo’s declaration can no longer be held in abeyance,” Jagdeo argued.
He contended that after a recount of about 15% of ballot boxes, the Statement of Polls (SOPs) in the possession of his party match the Statement of Recounts (SORs) generated from the National Recount.
Specifically he maintained that the SOPs from Region Four which his party made public in March match the SORs generated with “small adjustments”.
“[APNU+AFC] knew that once the recount started, the recount would reveal the plot to rig the elections,” Jagdeo said.
How would the coalition go about getting GECOM to annul the elections? The theory of the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) is that the coalition will use the recount to do so.
He explained that the coalition has been raising a series of spurious claims and allegations of discrepancies during the recount, and it said that those claims are so grave and numerous that they could call into question the credibility of the entire elections process.
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