A new civil society group that hopes to achieve significant electoral reforms before the next general elections was launched yesterday.
The launch of the Electoral Reform Group (ERG) comes against the background of Guyana history of contentious elections, including the controversies that attended this year’s polling, which saw a five-month-long delay in the finalisation of the results amidst efforts to manipulate the outcome.
Speaking during the virtual launch yesterday, economist Desmond Thomas declared that what occurred this year is not new. Guyana, he argued, has for years been in chronic electoral distress with persons refusing to accept the results every elections.
