Election result to be declared on or before June 16 – GECOM decides
The long-awaited results of the March 2 General and Regional Elections will finally be declared on or before June 16.
This is according to an addendum to the recount order which was approved by a majority of the Guyana Elections Commission today.
Stabroek News understands that in keeping with the Clause 2 of the Order, the Commission completed its review of the 25-day timeline which ends tomorrow. Clause 2 catered for a review of the timeline, which should have been done within the first week of the recount.
Based on the current pace of the recount the secretariat has advised that all 2,339 ballot boxes will be processed and their results tabulated by June 13.
Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield shall then submit the tabulated results in a report, together with a summary of the observation reports for each District, to the Commission.
According to the addendum the Commission then gives itself no more than three days to deliberate on the report and determine whether it should request the Chief Election Officer to use the data compiled as the basis for the submission of a report under section 96 of the Representation of the People Act Cap 1:03.
