Senior Counsel Ralph Ramkarran has accused Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield of distorting the impact of the ruling of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on the national recount as part of an effort to avoid complying with his legal obligations.
In his column in today’s Sunday Stabroek, under the title “Lowenfield’s weird mumbo jumbo,” Ramkarran suggests that Lowenfield has engaged in “willful defiance and gross insubordination” in failing to submit a final election report as directed by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Chair Claudette Singh.
Following the CCJ’s ruling, Lowenfield was asked to submit the report on the results of the election by 2pm on Friday using the votes certified by the national recount process. It was the second time he was asked to submit a report in wake of the results certified in the recount, the credibility of which he has questioned. However, he did not meet his deadline and instead submitted queries to Singh for guidance on preparing the report.
