Elections

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 ...

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has reacted sharply to Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Aubrey Norton’s position that his party’s polling agents would block foreigners from voting in next year’s general elections. “Elections are managed by the Guyana Elections Commission and political party agents will have no authority to determine who votes or not. Once, a person’s ...

Leader of the main opposition People’s National Congress Reform, Aubrey Norton at the weekend hinted that foreigners would be blocked by party polling agents from voting in next year’s general elections. Addressing a PNCR public meeting at Calcutta, Mahaicony, Mr Norton said opposition polling agents would be on the lookout for foreigners who are clearly not connected to Guyana. “Let ...