GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC –The Guyana Elections Fee (GECOM) has given the inexperienced mild to 6 political events to contest the upcoming common and regional elections, following a particular assembly of the Fee on Friday.
By authorized necessities and statutory timelines following Nomination Day, GECOM authorised candidate lists submitted by: A Partnership for Nationwide Unity (APNU), Alliance for Change (AFC), Meeting of Liberty and Prosperity (ALP), Ahead Guyana Motion (FGM), Folks’s Progressive Get together/Civic (PPP/C), and We Put money into Nationhood (WIN).
All six events will seem on the poll within the common elections. Nevertheless, solely 4 — APNU, AFC, PPP/C, and WIN — have submitted lists to contest in all ten electoral districts for the regional elections.
The ALP will contest in districts 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 10, whereas FGM will compete in districts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 10. GECOM confirmed that the lists submitted for these districts have been authorised.
On Nomination Day final Monday, seven events submitted candidate lists, however solely six met all of the authorized necessities, in line with GECOM.
Elections Commissioner Sase Gunraj disclosed on Friday that “the singular record that was not authorised was the Horizon and Begin Checklist”.
“They have been, as reported to us by the Secretariat, a number of defects on that record. And I imagine that what was mentioned to us didn’t meet the barest of necessities. That being mentioned, the opposite six lists, as have been introduced, have been authorised,” he defined.
GECOM suggested that Representatives and Deputy Representatives of the Lists have till July 21 to formally notify the Chief Election Officer in writing of any joinder of lists. The ultimate authorised lists might be gazetted and revealed on July 23.
