Georgetown: Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield has once ignored instructions he received from Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Justice Claudette Singh and has submitted a falsified elections recount report.
His report instead shows a win for the APNU/AFC, which is contrary to the national recount which shows a win for the Opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP).
In a letter to Lowenfield Friday, Justice Singh said she had carefully noted his concerns after he failed to submit his report then and asked for clarification, but that her letter from Thursday stands, that is, for him to provide a report on the national vote recount using the ten certificates of recount.
The GECOM Chair is yet to respond.
Meanwhile, the United Kingdom on Saturday again urged GECOM to declare the winner of the March 2, 2020 polls in keeping with the recount figures which show a victory for the People’s Progressive Party by over 15,000 votes.
“Guyanese people have waited long enough for election results. Now all legal processes have been completed I urge Guyana Elections Commission to declare a result based on @CARICOMorg scrutinised recount. Every vote must count, all must respect those votes, regardless of the result,” tweeted Baroness Elizabeth Grace Sugg, the UK’s Minister for Sustainable Development and Overseas Territories.
In late April, Baroness Sugg had said that the UK remains “deeply concerned” about the elections and the subsequent events that followed.
She had noted that the UK remains fully engaged in seeking a resolution to events in Guyana which upholds its fundamental commitment to democracy, good governance and the rule of law.
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