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GEORGETOWN – The governing People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) is seeking to have the chief elections officer Keith Lowenfield, his deputy Roxanne Myers and the returning officer for Region 4, Clairmont Mingo dismissed from their positions.
The PPP/C, through its commissioners on the Guyana Elections Commissioners (GECOM), filed three motions demanding the “immediate dismissal” of the three officials based on the controversial regional and general elections on March 2 last year that resulted in the removal of the coalition, A Partnership for National Unity and the Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) administration.
No date has yet been set for the debate on the motion. Both the government and the opposition have three GECOM members each on the seven-member commission that is chaired by retired Justice Claudette Singh.
2020 seems to be year of re-awakening of Private Sector on electoral matters
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Private Sector calls for GECOM Chair to address readiness for local gov t polls
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Claudette Singh
December 19, 2020
The Private Sector Commission (PSC) today called on the Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Justice of Appeal (R’td) Claudette Singh to “speak out and speak plainly” about action being taken to rectify all that has gone wrong with the commission and to do so quickly.
The PSC made the statement in light of the fact that local government elections are due next year but that GECOM has gone silent on connected matters.
Citing the fact that senior elections personnel including the Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield are now before the court charged with misconduct in public office, the PSC said “It is unthinkable and certainly unacceptable that GECOM should proceed to conduct Local Government Elections while these officers remain employed and involved in the conducting of these elections”.