Georgetown : President Bharrat Jagdeo today expressed pleasure over the smooth progress of voting in the General and Regional Elections moments after casting his ballot.
“Polling is going quite well across the country; we have had several reports from six this morning, so I’m extremely pleased,” he told media personnel. “There have been some minor hiccups, in a few places, but these have been resolved easily,” President Jagdeo said.
With regards to concerns by A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has not issued polling and counting agents with Certificates of Employment, President Jagdeo said that it’s a GECOM decision.
The certificate serves as a prerequisite that would allow those stakeholders to vote at the polling stations to which they have been deployed.
President Jagdeo said that the decision would similarly affect all the parties particularly the bigger ones, such as the PPP and APNU as these two have polling agents at every station.
President Jagdeo also commended the police officers for taking swift action in Region 7 after a man and two of his assailants attempted to ambush police officers who were escorting ballot boxes
“I gather this guy was a notorious criminal; I had a report that he was wanted for several robberies in that area, he terrorized a lot of people and they recovered some weapons too,” Jagdeo said about the incident. He however assured that the country’s security forces are equipped to provide the country with security for election.
The President said that it has been a peaceful and competitive campaign and that he looks forward to an aftermath ending just as peacefully so that the country can get back to work.
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