‘At this rate no local gov’t polls this year or next’
The ruling People’s Progressive Party says it is dissatisfied with the pace of several parts of the house-to-house registration and contends that at this rate GECOM will not be ready to hold local government elections this year or even next year.
The party is therefore calling on the commission to take the necessary measures to improve its work so that there can be local government polls this year.At a press briefing yesterday party General Secretary Donald Ramotar told reporters that while the party was pleased that at the moment the commission had registered over half of those eligible, it was dissatisfied with several other aspects of the process. GECOM officials could not be contacted for comment on the PPP statement yesterday. In its most recent statement, GECOM had said that the PPP and the PNCR were satisfied with the pace of the registration.
