According to media reports, if accurate, the election petition to be filed on behalf of APNU+AFC alleges that the elections were fraudulent and seeks an order that new elections be held or that Mr. David Granger be sworn in as President, presumably on the results delivered by the fraudulent elections.
This manifestation of legal tongue-twisting derives from the inadmissible, or so far unadmitted, undercurrent of electoral politics in Guyana, namely, the struggle for ethnic dominance. The reason why the PNCR has never come to terms with its past history of rigged elections from 1968 to 1985 is that it never had any intention of ever desisting from seeking ethnic dominance through election rigging. Despite international opprobrium on this occasion, and the trauma caused to Guyanese, the APNU+AFC was prepared to establish a race-based dictatorship, as it did in the past. It will attempt to do so again if and when it gets another opportunity because it is trapped in the vortex of Guyana’s ethnic politics. The reason it has to perpetually lie to its supporters that it was robbed of electoral victory by elections rigging by the malevolent PPP, that ethnic other, whether it is in Government or in the Opposition, is to maintain ethnic loyalty. If APNU+AFC advises their supporters that it can never win elections because it never achieve 51 percent of the vote, except by a fluke as in 2020, APNU+AFC’s raison d’etre will be severely undermined. It must keep hope alive.
