With local government polls drawing closer, the candidates for Georgetown were unveiled yesterday and a fierce battle is expected in a new system where First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) voting can shake up the old order.
A total of six political parties and civil society groups have been approved by the Guyana Elections commission (GECOM) to contest the proportional representation (PR) aspect of the upcoming Local Government Election in Georgetown while 64 candidates are vying for 15 FPTP seats. This is according to the list released by GECOM.
The PPP/C has not declared a mayoral candidate. (An earlier version of this story had said that former Works Minister Robeson Benn was on the list. This is incorrect. It is his son, Brindley Hamid Robeson Benn who is on the list. Stabroek News regrets the error.) APNU+AFC’s list includes long-serving Deputy Mayor Patricia Chase-Green but she will have to prove herself. She is only on the FPTP list for one of the constituencies which means that if she lost the election she
