General Elections are to be held within three months and the Opposition People’s Progressive Party is concerned about whether the recent illness of the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) will hamper the functioning of the commission during that period.
“This was our concern since he was appointed. That has to be our concern because the commission is critical to the machinery and if the commission is not meeting who runs GECOM? You need the oversight,” Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo told reporters yesterday.
Stabroek News has previously reported that meetings of the commission have been postponed to January 7 while retired Justice James Patterson, 85 waits to be cleared by his doctors.
