GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC—Aubrey Norton was re-elected unopposed because the chief of the principle opposition, Individuals’s Nationwide Congress Reform (PNCR), and the social gathering additionally chosen him as its presidential candidate for the subsequent elections in Guyana.
As well as, the PNCR membership authorised a movement permitting Norton to decide on one other individual because the social gathering’s presidential candidate.
“Be it additional resolved that the elected Social gathering Chief is solely empowered to resolve, if she or he so chooses, on different choices or preparations for Presidential Candidate,” states the decision.
In response to the outcomes launched Monday following the PNCR’s twenty second Biennial Delegates Congress on Sunday, Norton was elected unopposed for the place as the opposite nominees all introduced their withdrawal from the race.
The social gathering’s election returner, Vincent Alexander, stated that Norton had secured 98 p.c of the votes forged by delegates for the place of social gathering chief.
Alexander stated that Shurwayne Holder had been returned as social gathering chairman with a landslide victory over the opposite opponents for the place. Elizabeth Niles and Viceroy Jordan have been voted again as Co-Vice Chairpersons. Financial Adviser to the social gathering Elson Lowe has been elected Treasurer of the PNC Reform.
The PNCR stated on Monday that 1,300 delegates representing 218 teams have been accredited, coming from Guyana’s ten administrative areas, the US, Canada, and the UK.
Alexander stated that of the 1,066 votes forged, Norton secured 1,040 votes.
The June 28-30 Congress was held below the theme “Forming the subsequent authorities: constructing a simply, inclusive, and affluent society for All.”
The PNCR stated that Norton, in his presentation, described the social gathering’s individuals’s centered imaginative and prescient as a contract with Guyana that “places individuals first and can make the most of the sources of Guyana to attain the final word objective of offering a top quality of life to the individuals of Guyana by way of the direct and oblique switch of sources to our individuals, to coach them, help their mobilization of sources to work…”
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