Acting Chief Justice Roxane George SC yesterday ruled that the list of nominees for the post of Guyana Elections Com-mission (Gecom) Chair does not have to include a judge, a former judge or a person qualified to be a judge and that the President must state reasons for rejecting any candidate.
Additionally, Justice George also found that if the President finds one or more of the nominees unacceptable, it does not disqualify the entire list.
Businessman Marcel Gaskin, who filed the motion seeking an interpretation of Article 161(2) of the Constitution earlier this year, in a statement yesterday expressed his satisfaction with the ruling, which was handed down orally. However, he objected to Justice George’s position that “the President is not obligated to select a person from the list, unless he has determined positively that the persons are unacceptable as fit and proper
