In an appearance before the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS), Guyana’s representatives yesterday repudiated the CARICOM report on the national recount and erroneously declared that the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) had vitiated the process.
“In our estimation it was not a representative sample [that they observed] and at the end of it all they said it was reasonably credible. It’s either something is credible or it’s not credible…that 18% [of ballot boxes observed] is not a representative sample….and so it is really unfair to make such a general…it’s a fallacy, a hasty generalization of a process which they haven’t concluded,” de facto Minister of Foreign Affairs Karen Cummings declared during a special meeting on Guyana’s electoral process.
Cummings’ statement was made in response to a plethora of requests at the Washington, DC US-based OAS that the APNU+AFC respect the will of the people as reflected in the recount and allow for a transition to the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C).
