says recount is valid figure
Expressing bewilderment that the Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield could discard over 115,000 votes, CARICOM Chair Mia Mottley yesterday emphasised that the results of the recount of the March 2nd General Elections are the valid figures and she slammed what she termed “gamesmanship” in the electoral process.
The video statement by the Barbados Prime Minis-ter, who has invested CARICOM’s energies in a painstaking observing of the 33-day recount process, will be seen as upping the pressure on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to conclude the process and for the incumbent APNU+AFC to accept the result which shows that the opposition PPP/C has won.
While she did not identify APNU+AFC, much of the stalling of the electoral process has been attributed to it. There have also been attempts to rig the general elections in its favour. Lowenfield’s astounding report to GECOM on Tuesday in which he lopped off 115,787 votes with the intention of handing victory to APNU+AFC has been apprehended in local circles as another of these attempts.
Yesterday, Mottley thanked the Guyanese people for their patience.