There should be by-elections in the local authority areas where there were deadlocks in the elections for the chairpersons, former chairman of the elections commission Edward Hopkinson says.
“The same thing that happened in 94 should happen, there should be fresh elections,” he told Stabroek News when contacted on his views on the stalemates. After local government elections in 1994, when Hopkinson was chairman of the elections commission, there were by-elections to elect the chairperson and vice-chairperson of three Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs) following a deadlock at the council level.
A similar situation has resulted in six local authority areas for this year’s LGE but Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan stepped in and controversially appointed the chairpersons. Others are also of view that there should have been by-elections and the
