Georgetown: In the aftermath of the ruling of the Court of Appeal Monday, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is scheduled to meet Tuesday at 11:00hrs where the seven-member Commission.
The Court of Appeal has ruled, in the case brought by APNU/AFC supporter Eslyn David, that only valid votes must be used in the determination of the elections results.
Lowenfield was directed to submit the report after GECOM’s Chair Justice Claudette Singh decided that she will go ahead with the declaration of the certified results from the recount exercise, which showed that the PPP/C won with 233,336.
However, on Thursday, Lowenfield was served with a mere Notice of Motion and as such, he opted to not submit the report.
Additionally, there was no quorum at the Commission’s meeting following the absence of two government commissioners.
Those circumstances resulted in the meeting being adjourned to the next day, Friday, June 19. However, that meeting was put on hold due to the hearing on the Notice of Motion in the Appeal Court.
General Secretary of the PPP/C, Bharrat Jagdeo has already contended that there is nothing preventing GECOM from making a declaration since the issue of “valid votes” has already been settled by the Commission.
GECOM’s Chairman Justice (retired) Claudette Singh last week instructed Lowenfield to compile his final report using the figures from the recount to declare the winner of the elections.
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