Positions from PPP General Secretary, Bharrat Jagdeo PNCR-led Coalition only ‘offending party’ that seeks to cheat at elections – Jagdeo

Thecourt action by the PNCR-led APNU+AFC Coalition to stop the 2023 Local Government Elections is a transparent effort to perpetuate untruths about claims of fraud in the compilation of the List of Candidates, according to General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo.

“We have moved on. Now we are in campaign mode, but APNU’s lies keep following them all over the place,” he said, during a news conference on Thursday (May 4, 2023).

The application in the High Court was made by Carol Smith-Joseph, the chief scrutineer of APNU, and a supporting affidavit was filed by Vincent Alexander, the APNU+AFC Coalition-nominated Commissioner of the Guyana

Elections Commission (GECOM). Smith-Joseph contends that Article 72 of the Constitution and Section 3 (1) (a) and (b) of the Local Authorities Act Chapter 28:03 were violated. She has asked the Court for an order directing GECOM to comply with the legal provisions cited before attempting to change the boundaries of any constituency in Guyana and before the holding of Local Government Elections. Notably, on January 31, 2023, GECOM decided to change the boundaries of 37 constituencies in 19 local authority areas by a majority vote. It later gave this directive in an order.

On February 8, 2023, the modifications were made and published in the official gazette. Acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire