APNU/AFC’s election petition still not ready
…despite claims of having all evidence
Despite A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance For Change (APNU/AFC) leader and former President David Granger saying that his party would have completed its election petition and filed it by Monday, the document is still incomplete.
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This is according to one of the coalition’s candidates and attorney, Roysdale Forde. Granger had announced last week that the petition was likely to be completed by this weekend and filed on Monday.
But in an interview with this newspaper, Forde said that they are still working on completing the petition. He could not say when the petition will be finalised. Asked if there have been challenges with preparing the document, which would include finding evidence to support APNU/AFC’s case, he denied this.
“It has not been filed as yet… it is being prepared. (No timeframe) as yet,” he said, adding that there are no difficulties in its preparation.
The National Assembly (Validity of Elections) Act stipulates that an election petition must be filed in the High Court within 28 days of the election results being declared and published in the Guyana Gazette under Section 99 of the Representation of the People Act.
The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) declared the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) the winner of the elections on August 2, allowing for President Dr Irfaan Ali to be sworn in. His Cabinet was sworn in days later.
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