Wrap: Wherefore art thou gazetted election results?

Gecom should have gazetted the results of the election since Tuesday, but we are not seeing them online at least – unless Basil is too busy fine tuning his resume and forgot to post them. What’s the hold up?

If you read the affidavit from Monday in support of its request for the High Court to direct Gecom to release all the elections data, Ramotar seems to be responding to a request from CEO Keith Lowenfeld and insisting there is no deadline to supply Gecom with the names of the persons on their list of candidates because he is “uncertain that your allocation to us of 32 seats in the National Assembly reflects the will of the electorate.”

Are the PPP/C withholding its list and thus denying Gecom the ability to gazette the results because it cannot fulfill Section 99 (d) without it?

(It’s not clear that APNUAFC has submitted its list either and there does not seem to be much of a hurry on Granger’s part to get Parliament up and running even though in saying at his swearing in that Nagamootoo “will be appointed the next Prime Minister as soon as he is sworn in as a Member of Parliament” there seemed to be a tad more urgency)