With a 90-day constitutional clock ticking, the Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM) has mandated Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield to prepare a report of possible scenarios with timelines for the holding of general and regional elections for discussion tomorrow when the commission meets again.
“At the commission-level, we have to get a report from the Secretariat. We put a system in place whereby the CEO will prepare that report for us. Hopefully, we have it within 24 hours. We are meeting again on Thursday morning to go through that report. He will come with the vagaries that will affect the readiness for the elections,” PPP/C-nominated commissioner Sase Gunraj told Stabroek News.
GECOM yesterday held its first statutory meeting since local government elections were run off on November 12th last year. Its Chairman, retired judge James Patterson, who had been on several weeks of sick leave, suspended the agenda to deal with matters pertaining to the national and regional elections, which could be held sooner than anticipated after a no-confidence motion against the government was carried on December 21st, 2018. Several legal challenges have since been mounted to the vote.
