The lawyers for Misenga Jones have formally asked the Court of Appeal to set aside the decision of acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire upholding the validity of the national recount of votes from the March 2 polls.
In keeping with a commitment made after the Chief Justice’s ruling on Monday, counsel for Jones yesterday filed an appeal that contends that the Justice George-Wiltshire erred in law in her pronouncements on the recount, the results of which she said is the only data that could be used by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to declare a winner of the elections in keeping with a judgment by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).
Through her attorney, Mayo Robertson, Jones contends that the judge erred in law when she failed to find that the Chairperson of GECOM Justice (ret’d) Claudette Singh and the Commission itself had acted outside their constitutional and or statutory powers.
