For months, PPP/C leaders and supporters have accused the APNU+AFC government of plotting to rig the 2020 general elections and those concerns have now burst into the open with President David Granger’s decision to unilaterally name 84-year-old retired justice James Patterson as the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission.
Aside from the opposition PPP/C, condemnation of Granger’s decision has come from civil society and in several of the statements, the PNC’s history of rigging elections has been cited or referred to obliquely.
In its statement on Saturday expressing grave concern about Granger’s decision and calling upon him to issue reasons why 18 names supplied by Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo were rejected, the Guyana Bar Association referred carefully to the country’s past elections.
It said “The unilateral appointment
