After almost two weeks of anticipation, Guyanese are hoping that a final declaration will be made regarding the 2020 elections. This follows an agreement between President David Granger and Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo to have a recount of the ballots for the ten administrative regions under the supervision of a high-level CARICOM team.
The team arrived over the weekend and are currently finalizing logistics before the actual recount begins today.
The recounting will commence at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre at Liliendaal, Georgetown where, CEO, Keith Lowenfield and the CARICOM team will be present to supervise the process. The ballot recount will commence with region 4 which has been the subject of the elections controversy.
Some 2,339 ballot boxes will be recounted and the team will be supervising the process under the Terms of Reference (TORs) agreed to by GECOM.
Last Friday a declaration was made in favor of the APNU+AFC coalition government being victorious at the March 02nd elections, however that declaration was not accepted by the opposition and the ABC countries.
Following this move, Guyana was threatened by some from the International community about facing isolation.
The team aboard a Caribbean military aircraft and the delegation includes Mr. Francine Baron, Foreign Affairs Minister and Former Attorney General of Dominica; Mr. Anthony Boatswain, former Minister of Finance of Grenada; Ms. Cynthia Barrow-Giles, Senior Lecturer in Department of Government of UWI; and the Chief Elections Officers of Barbados and Trinidad.