Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday dismissed suggestions by the AFC that the work of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is being affected by government delays in clearing funds and said that the Commission has not made such a complaint to the administration.
“I am not aware that the Elections Commission made such a claim. I am, on the contrary, quite certain that the Elections Commission did not make such a claim,” Luncheon said yesterday during a press briefing at Office of the President. “And really, in the context of budgeting, where expenditure, month-by-month, [and] quarter-by-quarter, is planned by the budget agency and is provided according to that plan by the Ministry of Finance, the likelihood of sustained delays and the refusal to release financing for planned programmes by the Elections Commission is rather smallen [sic],” he added.
The AFC, on Wednesday, had expressed concern at “conflicting reports regarding the preparedness of GECOM to successfully stage the upcoming regional and general elections within the constitutional time frame.” The party said that
