Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday declared that he still has full confidence in the chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Justice (Rtd) Claudette Singh but argued that she must realize how damaging recent events will be to the institution’s credibility.
“The chair must now realize that the institution will lose credibility if every single week they issue a press release which is misleading and has to be corrected the next day or orders which have to be subsequently corrected,” he said at his weekly press conference yesterday.
Jagdeo stressed that the recent statements “not only mislead the country which can lead to the undermining of the institution and its standing and impartiality but it creates a ton of grief for ordinary citizens [who] rush to comply with one instruction but a day later or a week later have to change tack.”
