Georgetown: Former Attorney General on Tuesday lied to the Organisation of American States (OAS) Permanent Council stating that the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) did not rule that the recount results must be used as the basis for the March 2, 2020 elections declaration.
The CCJ, in its judgement in the Eslyn David case said: “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.”
Williams told the OAS Permanent Council which has called a meeting to discuss the electoral crisis in Guyana, that “the CCJ never made a ruling that the results of the recount must be used by GECOM to determine the results of the elections, that was never a decision of the CCJ.”
Williams also lied to the Permanent Council stating that caretaker President David Granger has given an undertaking that he will abide by the ruling of the courts, however, at every single opportunity presented at the Guyana Elections Commission for the declaration to be made the government commissioners would not show up which buys time for an APNU/AFC agent to use the courts to sidestep the process.
Williams also wrong claimed that the CCJ said the recount order “cannot work and you must go back to original electoral machinery.” He said that is why the Chief Elections Officer,
Keith Lowenfield, ignored the results of the recount and used figures which were condemned as fraudulent.
The APNU/AFC Coalition has lost the March 2 elections but is refusing to concede defeat.
A national recount has proven that the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) won the elections with 233,336 votes.
The Chief Justice, Roxanne George in her recent ruling noted that the case brought to the court by APNU/AFC was “hopelessly flawed”.
Former Attorney General Ani Nandlall said Williams was continuing the government’s “misrepresentations, lies and fabrications” as President David Granger hides in the background while using his minions to “dismantle” the recount and its results.
“Again, he continues to spin a narrative that defies reality,” said Nandlall, adding that it is part of the ploy by President Granger’s APNU+AFC Coalition to rig the elections to remain in office.
“The narrative that he (Williams) is reciting is a narrative that is inconsistent with everything that every other person and every other organisation has observed and spoke about and wrote about” in relation to the elections, Nandlall stated.
The CCJ’s decision of July 09 on the recount is completely at odds with what Williams told the OAS. The CCJ did not throw out the recount but in fact validated it.
In the case brought by APNU+AFC supporter Eslyn David, the CCJ had pronounced that “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.”
The Chief Justice noted that the CCJ clearly considered the allegations made by Harmon as regards irregularities, voter impersonation and fraud and decided that these are questions meant for an elections petition after the results of the elections are declared.
And so the Chief Justice concluded that “far from nullifying (Order) 60 and the recount process…the CCJ explicitly endorsed it.”
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