Elections

The main opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) on Friday urged Leader of The New Movement (TNM), Dr Asha Kissoon to resign from parliament and make way for a Liberty and Justice Party (LJP) parliamentarian to legally occupy the joinder seat. PNCR executive member, Ganesh Mahipaul said in keeping with a memorandum of understanding among the TNM, ANUG (A New ...

As opposition political parties press for The New Movement’s (TNM) Dr Asha Kissoon to be replaced because the Guyana Elections Commission’s (GECOM) Legal Officer, Kurt Da Silva said an error was made in selecting her, General Secretary of the governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo said he has no preference one way or another. “This is a matter entirely ...

Pressure on Wednesday mounted on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) and House Speaker Manzoor Nadir to take immediate steps to remove The New Movement’s (TNM) Asha Kissoon from the National Assembly. A New and United Guyana (ANUG) political party issued the call now that the GECOM has admitted that it made a mistake about which of the three joinder parties ...

The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Sunday said it would hold consultations on whether to boycott next year’s general elections if Retired Justice Claudette Singh remains the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Chairman, saying that she presided over the illegal occupation of a joinder parliamentary seat. “The AFC will commence by engaging national stakeholders on the issue and its potential impact ...

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) would accept an election victory in next year’s general and regional elections even if Guyana goes to the polls with a voters list that that party insists lacks credibility but would not accept the results if it loses, Executive Member Ganesh Mahipaul said Friday. He explained that much would depend on complaints that party ...

The chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Justice (ret’d) Claudette Singh, denies any personal political bias in the face of growing opposition calls for her to resign because she allegedly votes with the three People’s Progressive Party (PPP)-aligned election commissioners. “There is an accusation that I’m always voting with the PPP. I make my own decision,” she told a ...

As the number of eligible voters is set to surpass the latest figure of 718,715 and further fuel opposition calls for a clean list and digitalised fingerprint registration and identification of electors at polling stations, Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Claudette Singh on Friday said the commission needs to figure out whether it can introduce that biometric system. ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s labelling of three top Indo-Guyanese members of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) as “ambassadors” of Indo-Guyanese would not hurt the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) at next year’s general and regional elections and did not amount to campaigning for the incumbent, PNCR executive member, Ganesh Mahipaul, said Friday. In response to a question by Demerara ...

General Secretary of the ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday said the opposition has embarked on a campaign to drive fear into voters about the importance of non-nationals to next year’s general and regional elections, but he rejected claims that his party was padding the voters’ list with foreigners’ names to secure victory. “We don’t need foreigners ...

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on Monday said if the opposition fails to get digital biometric registration and verification of voters or a clean voters list for next year’s general and regional elections, the only option left is to train its polling agents. “The parties obviously will engage in more training of its agents and that’s the most they can ...