Allowing new registrants won’t delay polls

PPP/C presidential candidate Donald Ramotar flanked by PPP/C MP Norman Whittaker (left) and Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud (right) at yesterday’s press conference.

PPP/C presidential candidate Donald Ramotar yesterday said that upcoming polls would not be delayed by the holding of a new round of Claims and Objections to facilitate registration of between 5,000 and 7,000 eligible voters currently not on the list.

Opposition parties—PNCR, AFC and WPA—have questioned the timing of the PPP/C’s lobby to reopen registration, but Ramotar explained that the party was not aware of the true scope of the problem,