PPP welcomes donor community’s committment to strengthening GECOM

–sees it as essential to readying Commission ‘for mammoth task ahead’

THE announcement by Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Roger Luncheon that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) will be further strengthened with the critical support of members of the donor community is welcomed by the People’s Progressive Party (PPP). 

This is according to Party General Secretary, Clement Rohee yesterday while addressing the weekly press briefing at Freedom House, Robb Street, Georgetown.
Besides noting that the Party views the donor community’s intervention as a most positive development which emerged out of discussions between the Government of Guyana and the electoral body, Rohee said the PPP is pleased that GECOM will now be able to request support from the European Union, the United Nations, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the United Kingdom, Canada, etc.
The Party also sees the support as essential and necessary in readying the Commission for the mammoth task ahead as it organises for both Local Government and General and Regional Elections.
“We believe that, given our recent findings and the concerns raised, the Commission is in need of all the help it can acquire to execute its constitutional mandate effectively and independently,” Rohee said, adding:
“The Party will continue to lobby the Commission to address the recurring deficiencies on the Preliminary List of Electors with the aim of helping GECOM see the shortcomings wherever they exist and to have them fixed.”
“The Party’s concerns that have been submitted to GECOM,” he said, “were born out of extensive and intensive field checks on the NRR during the registration exercises and our house to house work and the PLE of 2014.”
He noted that the Party will neither be deterred nor distracted by those who are pursuing agendas other than that of ensuring that all eligible citizens be enfranchised. “The Party has noted that the level of urgency and consciousness of GECOM Secretariat and its field staff have skyrocketed and renewed efforts are being made to ensure that all is well with certain aspects of the list.
“This is a positive development which will only result in a truly made perfect list which does not currently exist. The PPP’s resolve is strong and its focus will continue to be placed on putting systems in place to reduce and detect skullduggery and electoral rigging,” said Rohee.

(By Telesha Ramnarine)

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