WITH just 40 days to the September 1, 2025, General and Regional Elections, no political parties have submitted a Joinder of Lists to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).
This was disclosed by government-appointed commissioner to GECOM, Sase Gunraj, in a post via Facebook on Tuesday.

This disclosure in turn means that all six political parties, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), the Alliance For Change (AFC), the Assembly for Liberty and Prosperity (ALP), the Forward Guyana Movement (FGM) and the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), We Invest In Nationhood (WIN) all recently cleared will contest the 2025 elections individually.

According to Section 22(1) of the Representation of the People Act (RoPA), two or more political party candidate lists may be combined for the purpose of allocation of seats in parliament.
GECOM had set July 21 as the deadline for the submission of joinder lists.

In previous reports, it was noted that ballots are not cast for the combination; the parties in the combination would be listed separately on the ballot paper, and the combination is treated as one list for the purpose of seat allocation.

However, with no joinder of lists submitted, the final gazetted lists of candidates are expected to be published today, July 23, 2025.
Just last week, the commission disclosed that while seven parties had submitted lists on Nomination Day, only six parties’ lists were approved by the commission, after meeting all the legal and other requirements.

Only four of those six—APNU, AFC, PPP/C and WIN have submitted candidate lists for all 10 electoral districts in the regional elections