With another admonition from CARICOM Chairperson Mia Mottley that a legitimate government depends on a transparent recount of votes from the March 2nd general elections, a three-member scrutineer team from the Community touched down here yesterday for a second attempt at resolving the country’s electoral crisis and a long-awaited start date for the process is expected to be set today.
Hours before the team disembarked from a chartered Trans Guyana Airways flight at the Eugene F. Correia International Airport at Ogle, Mottley, in a statement released by the Community, called “on all concerned to ensure a credible and transparent recount process in order to provide legitimacy to any government, which would be sworn in as a result.”
This process, she added, “must be completed without further delay”. The warning from Mottley, the Prime Minister of Barbados, further underlines the jeopardy for any illegally sworn-in government, a point that has also been repeatedly emphasised by the US, UK, Canada and the European Union as well as regional and international partners.
