The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Monday labelled the leaking of an email from its chairman Khemraj Ramjattan to executives on the selection of a GECOM chairman as “political mischief”.
The party has faced internal and external attacks over its support for President David Granger’s unilateral appointment on October 19 of retired justice James Patterson as Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).
Leading the internal criticism of its leaders has been the AFC-Canada which has since withdrawn support for the party following the AFC’s support for the Patterson selection. One of the members of the Canada branch, Laurence Williams, on November 17 circulated part of Ramjattan’s email of October 22. The release of the email was intended to show that AFC leaders had provided advice to Granger that he could make a unilateral appointment of the GECOM Chairman following the submission of the second list of names by Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo. Up to November 17, the AFC had said that it was not consulted on the appointment of Justice Patterson but it did not disclose that its two main leaders had advised the President that he could make a unilateral appointment
