GECOM approves recount for all 10 regions

Georgetown: The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) agreed to a national recount of votes on Friday in the aftermath of elections on March 2, 2020.

According to GECOM, the elections body has agreed to a chronological order from Regions 1 to 10.

GECOM on March 15 had agreed to have a recount of all votes cast in the March 2 General and Regional Elections under the supervision of a high-level team from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

This process was halted after Justice Franklyn Holder granted APNU+AFC candidate Ulita Moore injunctions stopping a recount and preventing GECOM from altering the declaration made by the Region 4 Returning Officer Mingo.

The injunctions were granted just as the commission was contemplating a legal opinion from the Chief Parliamentary Counsel who had advised that the Commission could not gazette an Order legitimizing the recount.