THE ruling People’s Progressive Party’s consistent engagement with the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on issues of concern has raised questions about the party’s confidence in the body’s head, Dr. Steve Surujbally.However, the PPP General-Secretary, Mr. Clement Rohee, on Monday, was emphatic in stressing that to date there has been nothing to diminish the party’s confidence in Dr. Surujbally.

“We have not seen anything as yet to make us shift our position on this matter….I would not say that at this point we have lost confidence in Dr. Surujbally,” he said, at a news conference at Freedom House.
Rohee explained that as Chairman of GECOM, Dr. Surujbally was appointed out of a process set up by the “Carter formula” in which the names submitted for consideration had to be names “not unacceptable” to the Head of State.
He said, “Thus far, neither the President, the Government, nor the PPP has expressed any lack of confidence. We have no interest in moving a no-confidence motion in Dr. Surujbally…we continue to have confidence in him.
“…the process out of which Dr. Surujbally was appointed, the Government and the ruling party, had to have confidence in him for him to be appointed. Thus far there has not been anything to make us shift from that position.”
The General-Secretary added, however, that with the passage of time the ruling party will continue to raise its concerns with GECOM with the expectation that they be addressed in a “satisfactory” manner.
“We are expecting that they will take up these concerns and address them in a satisfactory manner,” Rohee concluded.

(Vanessa Narine)