Temptation to pay little attention to the inscrutability of the governing political elite in its dealings with the selection of a new chairperson for the Guyana Elections Commission gave way to concern as I came to realise that the situation may be somewhat more complicated and possibly detrimental to the body politic.
An upper secondary school child should be able to decipher that our constitution allows three categories of persons to become the chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission: a judge of the high court, a person qualified to be such a judge or any ‘fit and proper person’.
So President David Granger’s rejection of the list submitted to him by the leader of the opposition on the grounds ‘that none of the candidates was a former judge or someone eligible to be appointed as a judge’ (President rejects GECOM list. SN: 08/01/2017) is patently false and it must be deliberately so.
