PRESIDENT Donald Ramotar is urging supporters and the nation as a whole “to wait a bit longer to have democracy prevail.”The Head of State during a press briefing yesterday at the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) office at Freedom House, stressed that the recount of 22 ballot boxes where irregularities in the electoral process were flagged, has been granted by the Guyana Elections Commission and will be “worth the wait.”
President Donald Ramotar told media operatives that the “de jure” government the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is poised to declare winners would not be legitimate. He is asking his supporters and the nation “to wait a bit longer to have democracy prevail.”
Speaking to the nation, he informed the group of media operatives, “I will ask them [the nation] to wait a little bit more because what is at stake here is democracy in our country and we know, it’s not that we [do] not have any knowledge of what the lack of democracy calls for; it causes us to deteriorate, we are on the upward climb, it is worth the wait to have a recount it takes 24 hours or 48 hours to have a recount of these votes.”