A proposed meeting today of GECOM on the way forward following yesterday’s Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) decision has been postponed to tomorrow as government-appointed commissioners have requested time to study the ruling.
This manoeuvre by Vincent Alexander, Charles Corbin and Desmond Trotman had been expected as part of plans by the incumbent APNU+AFC coalition to further delay the process for the declaration of a result.
Observers note that yesterday’s CCJ ruling is pellucid in its dismissal of the Guyana Court of Appeal decision and the demolishing of the June 23rd report of Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield dumping over 115,000 votes and purporting to hand victory to APNU+AFC when the winner based on the recount is the PPP/C.
At the last GECOM meeting where the certification of the recount result was to be considered Corbin and Trotman did not turn up and the meeting could not proceed as there was no quorum.
If they do not turn up for the meeting tomorrow, the GECOM Chair can call a meeting the following day and the a quorum would be formed by the Chair and three other commissioners.
Observers believe that APNU+AFC is still looking for means to block the certification of the result and the swearing in of Irfaan Ali as the new President.
They point to yesterday’s defiant statement by caretaker President David Granger insisting that there had been fraud at the March 2nd general elections. Neither Granger not APNU+AFC has presented any credible evidence of this.
