The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) yesterday said that it had answered all of the issues raised by the opposition PPP/C in relation to the long-awaited upcoming local government elections and voiced consternation at the party’s continuing focus on the ethnicity of election workers.
At a press conference held at GECOM’s office in Kingston, Chairman Dr Steve Surujbally revealed that during a meeting between the commission and a PPP/C delegation on November 3rd, General Secretary of the party Clement Rohee “wanted to know the ethnicity of those 12,000 plus people. This is not something I am making up ladies and gentleman this is what is on a tape as I said I understand a political party saying ‘you know I am, a little bit worried about that’ but prove to me that this person has done something really badly that would impact upon the results of an election.”
He brushed aside the complaints by the PPP/C prior to the May General and Regional Elections on this same matter, noting that no names were ever submitted of election workers to GECOM that the party wished to have the commission investigate. The party however had taken to
