Members of civil society yesterday intensified calls for President Donald Ramotar and the PPP/C to concede defeat at Monday’s polls, which they maintained were free and fair.
Although the preliminary results show that opposition coalition APNU+AFC won the polls with 206,817 votes to PPP/C’s 201,457 votes, Ramotar has insisted that the process was rigged and demanded a full recount of ballots. The PPP/C’s continued objections have delayed the official declaration and the swearing in of David Granger as the new head of state.
The Guyana Bar Association, the Guyana Association of Women Lawyers, the Justice Institute of Guyana and Transparency Institute (Guyana) Inc yesterday jointly called on Ramotar and the PPP/C to accept the results of the general and regional elections and to
