Buzz: Granger preaches peace as Ramotar digs in
The timeline for the next couple of days
should run as follows:
Gecom will tabulate the declarations from the returning officers,
announce the official results
(that will vary by a few votes from Gecom’s numbers of yesterday)
and perhaps tomorrow
Acting Chancellor of the Judiciary Carl Singh
will swear in David Granger
as the eighth President of Guyana.
Looking a little further ahead
he will then appoint the Prime Minister (Moses Nagamootoo)
and the Attorney General
(possibly, repeat, possibly Basil Williams),
and early next week,
as agreed in the Cummingsburg Accord,
Prime Minister Nagamootoo
will present his choices
for the Cabinet to Granger.
So everyone can enjoy the weekend
speculating on who will get which positions.
The Chronicle and the Times persist with the party line:
“PPP/C claims elections rigged” and
“PPP/C calls on GECOM to come clean on Elections 2015″
with both those guys who used to be president
Jagdeo & Ramotar holding separate press conferences last night
even as rumours of altercations at Freedom House
flew around town.
This one slapped this one,
so and so cuss out so and so…
this one threw away this one’s zimmer frame….
One wonders the point of it all or
perhaps they are simply attempting
to tarnish the victory
and establish an early draft of history
that the “PNC” has stolen yet another election.
The trouble is the international observers
all declared Monday’s polls free and fair.
So the longer they hold out
the more they are tarnishing themselves.
Meanwhile Granger addressed
a huge crowd outside
the APNUAFC headquarters
on Crown St telling them
“We have to abolish poverty,
we have to abolish
hatred for one another…
this victory is not for me
David Granger,
this is for you and your children.
I don’t want you to hurt anyone …
all Guyanese
are our brothers and sisters.”
In brief….
KN headlines that Robert Persaud has conceded
although buries his slightly ambiguous
FB comments at the bottom of the article…
And If you like numbers
we have a good comparison of voting in the 2011 elections
as compared to Monday.
And as we conclude Linden was crucial.
In many respects this was a
urban vs country election and
that is one of the divides that needs to be bridged.
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