Georgetown: The U.S. government looks forward to working with the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) and the international observer community on the recount of votes cast on March 02, 2020, according to the U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a statement on Tuesday.
The top US official said the United States intends to work with the various stakeholders including the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) and the International Observers to ensure that the process is fair and transparent.
“I also like to commend Guyana’s High Court for clearing the way for a nationwide recount in that country’s recent national elections as well. We look forward to working with the Elections Commission and International Observer community to ensure that that process if free, fair and transparent”, Pompeo said.
The Court of Appeal has not yet handed down its orders after Sunday saying that GECOM cannot hand over supervision of the process to CARICOM, or any other team for that matter since the electoral laws spell out that GECOM is the one to manage the process.
GECOM is still interested in using CARICOM and would have to figure out what language it would use to facilitate that involvement.
GECOM has essentially dismissed all of the declarations for the ten electoral districts and said it would do a recount in numerical order.
No decision has yet been made on when the recount would start, but the Commission is expected to discuss a plan for the recount as prepared by the Chief Elections Officer.
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