Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) Dr Steve Surujbally last evening appealed to all political parties and citizenry to let peace and tranquility prevail as Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield reported that apart from a few glitches the country’s national and regional elections went smoothly yesterday.
“Allow me to make an appeal to the citizenry, to the political parties that are contesting these elections that peace and tranquility must prevail. This peace and tranquility cannot prevail within an environment of turbulence,” Dr Surujbally told reporters last evening during a press conference at the commission’s Kingston command centre.
He then requested that persons milling around polling stations disperse and go home and revealed that he had “demanded it almost” for leaders of the two major political parties to explain to their loyalists that the ballot boxes are of a lesser import than the statements of
