THE PPP knew it was being cheated at elections of 2011 and that is why they called for a recount; but British High Commissioner Hiscock was supporting the opposition openly by joining them in the streets when they were preparing to rampage.

That is why the PPP recalled their request for recount; but PPP, PNC/APNU and GECOM all knew the results were incorrect and that former Chief Elections Officer Gocool Boodhoo was being backed into a corner in GECOM. The pieces started falling into place when Hiscock wrote defending Surujbally when he was being exposed for alleged misdemeanours by Boodhoo and Commissioner Dr. Keshav Mangal.  Surujbally was always perceived as a PNC supporter (he was nominated for the position of Chairman of GECOM by Hoyte) and many PPP supporters are expressing fears that he cannot be trusted to lead the country into another election.    It is their conviction that his credibility has been compromised and government should declare a no-confidence motion against him to get him out, even if they have to go to court. The general perception is that he is a serious threat to the crediblity of the next election. Another consideration that makes PPP supporters fearful is that the Electoral Assistance Bureau(EAB) is run by Fr. Malcolm Rodriques, a WPA/APNU member, and comprises all members opposed to the PPP.
At the recent PPP Congress, factors that led to the PPP losing its parliamentary majority were discussed and indications are that one of the factors was a manipulation of the results, especially with the recent disclosure by GECOM Commissioner Dr. Keshav Mangal who chided PNC Commissioner Vincent Alexander for omitting in his accusations against former Chief Elections Officer, Gocool Boodhoo, that Returning Officer for Region 3, Farley Sobers, went to the full commission one week after final results and allocation of seats were declared –  and apologised for leaving out seven pages of results covering some 19 polling places in his tabulation of results for the said region, a PPP stronghold, which he gave in his declaration of results and which had to be accepted by Boodhoo for his final tabulation.
Stabroek News edited out this aspect of the letter during its publication and questions are being asked as to the reason behind the silence from the supposedly independent media. This revelation has more bearing than Alexander’s allegation against Boodhoo, as it means that the governing PPP/C had in fact won a majority of the parliamentary seats if the excluded votes in one of its traditional strong areas had been taken into account. Mangal said that the adopted minutes of the commission meeting in question can prove his claim.
However, the party knew that it had won the majority, and this was disclosed by President Donald Ramotar in an exclusive interview with the Chronicle shortly after he assumed the presidency. It was this conviction that caused the PPP to call for a recount of the ballots cast, a request which it had to recall because the opposition was threatening violence and had already massed in the streets in what was clearly a pre-planned strategy.  The PNC had, presumably because it had thought that their manipulation would have won them the election, already announced that it had won and Granger was being addressed as the President and giving victory speeches.
It was also recognised at Congress that GECOM and the Registrar’s Office are biased in favour of the opposition, and delegates of the Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) urged their party to overhaul the General Registrar’s Office (GRO) because of the opposition being given preference in getting birth certificates for its members to register on the voters’ list. In reporting to the plenary session on the political situation, one delegate observed that there have been several reports of favouritism in getting source documents such as birth certificates. He said the opposition was, however, being facilitated. Against that background, his committee recommended that the GRO be restructured. Touching on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Nokta reported that there was ongoing influence in the commission by the joint opposition.
In his address at the opening ceremony of the PPP’s 30th congress, the President said the party and Guyana as a whole cannot afford to relent to an opposition which has proven by their actions that they are unfit to run this country and urged delegates to be resolute in the face of struggles as the progress made so far is not invincible and has to be defended every day and reinforced.
As aforementioned,  President Ramotar knew what was happening even on election day itself, because a Chronicle staffer was with him in his office and he said so, and specifically mentioned Region 3, as well as some polling stations in different areas from which  PPP polling agents and scrutineers were forcibly being ejected, allowing the PNC agents that had infiltrated GECOM to perpetrate manipulations; and after he was sworn in, he had an exclusive interview with the Chronicle, during which he revealed that the PPP was forced to withdraw a request they had made for a recount because of the threat of the opposition that they feared was going to start riots because they had already amassed at central points, where they had been joined by British High Commissioner Hiscock.
The entire GECOM staff knew that the PPP was being cheated because the announcement kept being delayed as Boodhoo tried for reason and was being fought down, even as the PNC was agitating for quick results, presumably knowing that if they railroaded the thing through they would get the exact outcome they did; or even, as they planned, a majority.  They were even celebrating a victory and Granger was being addressed and making speeches to his supporters as president, even before election results had been announced, because it is perceived that they had expectations that their strategy would have been even more successful than it was.
They had planned, and Tacuma Ogunsye had let the cat out of the bag, that if they did not win and get to share power, there “…would be no Guyana”, and Donald Ramotar did not want the progress and gains achieved by the Bharrat Jagdeo administration, which had left the country poised for runaway development, with the climate, at national and international levels, just right to fructify in mammoth successes that would have put Guyana on solid socio-economic footing forever.  Instead, because of their power-hunger and grudge against former President, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, and President Ramotar, they waged a vendetta for over two years that stultified all those projects in the pipeline.
PPP supporters are calling on their party leaders to stop being reactive and become proactive; and the first item on the agenda, they are convinced, is that Steve Surujbally has to go.