Georgetown: The Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield was given a fourth chance to submit the results of the national vote recount and if he fails to do so Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Justice (rt’d) Claudette Singh will then ask his Deputy Roxanne Meyers.
GECOM will meet again on Tuesday at 14:30h.
The GECOM chair also set aside all previous declarations.
The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) had last Wednesday ruled very clearly that the results from the national vote recount cannot be set aside and must be used to declare the winner of the March 02 elections.
“Unless and until an election court decides otherwise, the votes already counted by the recount process as valid votes are incapable of being declared invalid by any person or authority,” Justice Adrian Saunders, President of the Court, said in a ruling.
The Court then said what should happen when it stated: “It is for GECOM to ensure the CEO submits a report in accordance with its direction of June 16 in order to proceed along the path directed by the laws of Guyana.”
That June 16 direction, which has now been given twice, is for the Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield to prepare a report based on the results of the recount.
The Court had urged that this be done without delay. The combined totals shows the PPP winning the elections with 233, 336 votes. APNU+AFC secured 217,920 votes. Together the other parties secured 9,096 votes.
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