GECOM Commissioner Dr Keshav Mangal yesterday released correspondence showing that Chairman Dr Steve Surujbally had not responded to a long list of concerns about the 2011 general elections that he raised on January 19th, 2012.
In a letter to Stabroek News, Mangal said that he had followed up the correspondence with the Chairman on February 11th, 2013 but there had still been no reply. The release of the correspondence by Mangal, appointed by the government, is a further manifestation of the tension that has gripped the Guyana Elections Commission following the majority decision not to renew the contract of the former Chief Election Officer (CEO), Gocool Boodoo.
Surujbally’s vote with the opposition-appointed commissioners formally ended Boodoo’s quest for a new contract despite support for the CEO from Mangal and the other two government-appointed commissioners. In recent days this
