The Guyana Elections Commission yesterday afternoon decided that government-nominated Commissioners and Opposition-nominated Commissioners would each present lists of shortlisted candidates to fill the positions of Chief Election Officer (CEO) and Deputy CEO.
Opposition-nominated Commissioner Vincent Alexander told Stabroek News that the decision was taken at “the shortest meeting” GECOM has had to date.
“The act of shortlisting is incomplete. Basically what happened today (yesterday) and what we are going to do is that we have one list coming from the nominees of the opposition, one from the nominees of the government. We are going to combine those two and see where we have common names and the others we would have a debate over using the criteria which is in the advertisement,” Alexander related in a brief comment to the Stabroek News.
