There is no movement yet on implementing electoral reforms recommended by the Organisation of American States (OAS) following the November 28, 2011 general elections.
The standing committee on constitutional reform which should have overseen these matters has not met since the elections, leader of the AFC Khemraj Ramjattan says. “The Constitutional Reform Commission was supposed to deal with these matters,” he said noting that the body was supposed to be dealing with reforms for the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) as well.
The AFC leader said that the reforms could only be dealt with by the CRC but since the opening of the 10th Parliament, the body has not met. “It is somewhat at a dead end,” he asserted. He suggested that the reason that the CRC has not met was
