Dear Editor

THE Gerry Gouveia, PPP/C arm of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) is a classic example, when the pursuit of political power by any means, drives the pursuer to insane levels of shameful behaviour. This latest act, of political surrogacy, to present a list of demands to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), when that constitutional body would have virtually finalised its draft order and operational plan for execution of the national recount of the March o2 national and regional ballots, typifies Gouveiaís perception of the national electoral body, as one to be bullied, to do the biddings of the political underlings of the PPP/C. And how well, he has honed the dark rudiments of the PPP/C political culture!

Just look at the deviousness of its strategy of such demands, that is intended to not only create the impression of a clamour, on behalf of the national business and commerce, to give it the semblance of a thousand voices so as to cow GECOM to its dark bidding, and of course, to mislead the international community; but also to become a proxy. In fact, his demands are reported to mirror those of the PPP/C.

These political deviants of all shades have misinterpreted GECOMís patience and accommodative posture, for consensus for the conclusive end of the national and regional ballot count, as timid. But they have been mistaken, as exemplified by the decisiveness of the Madame Chairís ruling on the final issues for the draft order and work plan.
Gouveiaís entire role in the plot to portray GECOM as an agency of fraud, is quite established, and need no elaboration here; except that his statement describing ìas a waste of timeíí, the entire recount process, had obviously been the duplicitous proxy for Jagdeo, who, because of initially agreeing with the President to do a recount of all the regions, could not have publicly reneged.

How in the name of good heavens could this dangerous mouthpiece of a PPP/C premier supporter, from which he would have waxed rich, be described as impartial and a patriot by another well-known PSC front-liner defies all moral decency and character reference. How could such a brand of being apolitical be given to such an infamous purveyor of the PPP/C politics of blatant interference in an autonomous, constitutional body, for example, when he had the temerity to write GECOM ordering that it ceases the House-to- House registration process, which legality has always been there in the National Registration Act?
And where is Gouveia going to wear that patriot badge, as stated above, by that same person, as a Guyanese, who would have sought to write a missive to the Organisation of American States (OAS), without the consent of many of his fellow members, and anti-national in nature, advocating sanctions for his own country and people, off of whose patronage, labour and sweat he and his political acolytes have made their multi-billions throughout the decades?

This is the man whose dark role in the fomenting of social tension in this Republic is well-known, and chronicled, for the damage that he and others would have done to this country.
Regards,
Carla Mendonca