President David Granger yesterday said he will “accept, and abide by” a Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) ruling which upheld the validity of the December 21 no confidence vote but stated that elections cannot be held before the conclusion of house-to-house registration.
“We did not believe that the no-confidence vote was valid and neither did we believe it reflected the will of Parliament or the Guyanese people [but] we respect the legal process and the decision of Carib-bean Court of Justice as well as the Constitution of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana,” he said in an address to the Nation from Bartica immediately after the court delivered its ruling.
Granger added that it is essential that Guyana holds fair, free and credible elections and argued that this cannot happen on the most recent list of voters as “it is outdated and corrupted.”
