The APNU+AFC administration has refused a renewed United States diplomatic push for the Carter Center to be allowed to return to observe the recount of the votes cast at the March 2 polls, citing CARICOM’s ongoing role in the process and the closure of the airports due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“[I]t may not be possible for the Carter Centre and the IRI [International Republican Institute] Advisor to participate in the overseeing of the recount of the votes cast on 2nd March 2020 General and Regional Elections which as you are aware has already commenced,” de facto Foreign Affairs Minister Karen Cummings wrote in a letter, dated May 15, to US Ambassador Sarah-Ann Lynch.
“The Government of Guyana requests that the legitimate decisions it has taken with respect to the role of the Caribbean Community in the recount of the ballots cast in the General and Regional Elections and the Emergency Measures it has implemented to protect its citizens from the COVID-19 pandemic be respected,” Cummings added.
