Dear Editor
PLEASE allow a response in your media, to “Essential to ensure free and fair elections-US, UK, EU,’’ DEMERARAWAVES, September 29, 2019.
What a statement! And what hypocrisy, coming from a joint statement from the diplomatic representatives of the US, UK, and the EU! It is as if these envoys, perhaps from another galaxy, or awakened from a political Rip Van Winkle, have now sat up to the realisation so patently clear to the entire nation, except to the dangerously dishonest Freedom House political crooks, who continuously objected to having a sanitised voters list, that the coalition government’s concern was for national and regional elections to be held by way of a sanitised list.

But it begs the question, as to what these ABE (America, Britain, European Union) envoys expected the government to do on receiving the GECOM timelines from Chairperson, Ret’d Justice Claudette Singh. It would seem, subsequent to the latter information being given to the President, that he was to have immediately announced an election date. One wonders how this would have been possible, given two important aspects: first, having to discuss such a most crucial matter with his cabinet, as a matter of principle, for any such decision, if any; and, second, to have agreed to any such decision would have meant the definite possibility of impugning GECOM’S critical exercise of the continuation of a clean voters’ list.
This would have favoured the political opposition PPP/C’s sinister plan of national elections, by way of a corrupt list. For the President Granger administration, the latter was not going to be a part of their electoral plans for the nation, and their understanding of democracy; and neither GECOM’S, by extension. Therefore, one must posit this question to the ABE representatives: what was so difficult for an understanding that the calls made by all those crooked voices, shouting their deceptive heads off, was for elections that would have had grave post-balloting consequences?

In asking this question, one must examine a traditional western demand of Third World countries, having elections at all costs, regardless of whatever factors that are critical of them being held to the highest standards of propriety, being overlooked.
Elections are a democratic exercise of citizens having the democratic right to elect a government of their choice. However, these must be held with its very credibility being upheld, inclusive of a voters’ list that would have facilitated ‘free and free elections’, same as what, like a now awakened person from a very long sleep, is now advocated by these diplomats, but always insisted on by the David Granger government. Why was it so difficult for the ABE countries not to understand this?

The ABE envoys must also be reminded that democratically held elections should be a must for every country that espoused the values of democracy; but if/when held in a manner that is questionable, and will lead to grave social crises, it is no boon to the government that would have overseen such a process.
No government that respects the will of the people, or their democratic rights, would tolerate such an electoral crime as a tainted list, such as what the PPP/C would have wanted. At least, not the David Arthur Granger government.

Regards
Earl Hamilton