The Electoral Observa-tion Mission (EOM) of the Organisation of American States yesterday called on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to improve its dissemination of preliminary election results and has made a slew of recommendations including consideration of state funding to political parties.
“In order to promote equity in the electoral process the mission recommends the consideration of some form of state funding for political parties,” Chief of Mission Lisa Shoman said at a news briefing at the Marriott Hotel yesterday. She added that it was also expressed by a wide variety of stakeholders that access to state media was not equitable.
Speaking to Stabroek News after the briefing, Shoman, a former Belizean Foreign Minister, said that the OAS will continue to lobby for equitable media access as it is imperative to the electoral process. She also highlighted the work of GECOM’s Media Monitoring Unit in bringing to
