Norton misleads on Election date

Guyana’s next general elections will be held in November or December 2025, according to Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo.

At his last news conference, he said, “Many people believe that this is really the two-thirds point in the term of the People’s Progressive Party in office. It is not. As you know, elections will be held sometime in November or December of 2025.

“…so there is still nearly another three years to go, largely because of the extended delay that we had in declaring the [2020] results. And then, the period after convening Parliament you have a three-month period to hold the elections.”

After the March 2,2020 General and Regional Elec - tions, the attempts by the PNCR-led Coalition to undermine the will of the Guyanese people, aided by elements with the Secretariat of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), led to a five-month delay in the declaration of final results.

The PPP/C was finally declared the winner of the elections and its candidate Irfaan Ali subsequently sworn in as the country’s ninth executive president, on August 2, 2020.

Addressing the PPP/C’s plan for the development of Guyana and the Guyanese people, Jagdeo said, “There is time in the future to implement the aggressive plans that we have laid out to transform this country.”

Despite the widespread publicity of the re - marks made by Jagdeo, the PNCR-led Coalition’s leader, Aubrey Norton, sought to mislead on the election date.

Using a sparsely attended public meeting in Albouystown, Georgetown, Norton said, “What he is doing is seeking to make you complacent and believe that elections are going to be until 2026 and once you become complacent, he will call elections earlier. We must see through his strategy and prepare for elections…we must continue to work and be ready this year.”

Despite the false nature of his comments and subsequent questioning, Norton remains silent on his public attempt to mislead on the election date.