PRESIDENT Bharrat Jagdeo Tuesday received the Official List of Electors from Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Dr. Steve Surujbally, paving the way for the announcement of national elections.
Subsequent to receiving the document, President Bharrat Jagdeo, at a press conference, said he will announce the date within one week.


GECOM’s Chairman, in an invited comment to the Government Information Agency (GINA) said the Commission is very much ready.
“We are inexorably on the path to elections, the president now has the Official List of Electors (OLE), the final voters list, in his possession, he will now call a date. We will have something called nomination day in which the parties that are prepared to contest for high office will, according to whatever day the President sets, register to vie for elections,” Dr. Surujbally said. (GINA)