PPP to seek legislative changes before local elections – Rohee

The PPP said yesterday that it would be seeking amendments to legislation dealing with local government elections, but did not indicate what those changes were likely to encompass.

General Secretary of the party Clement Rohee told reporters at the PPP’s weekly press briefing that this was because, “The handling of the votes by the Disciplined Services in the May 2015 elections gave rise to several highly suspicious occurrences.”

He added that the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) was “yet to resolve a number of outstanding matters with respect to voting by the Disciplined Forces at the Local Government Elections. In this connection, there are a number of laws that will have to be amended if problems are to