IN separate videos on their respective Facebook pages, both the leaders of We Invest in Nationhood (WIN), Azruddin Mohamed and the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), Aubrey Norton, have claimed that there were irregularities in the 2025 General and Regional elections.

The declared results of the elections, which were released by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), showed that the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) secured 242,498 votes, We Invest in Nationhood (WIN), 109,066, and the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) secured 77,998 votes.

Subsequent to the release of the declared Region Four results on Wednesday, Leader of WIN, US-sanctioned businessman, Azruddin Mohamed, said: “Within the past few days, we have had numerous and credible reports of grave irregularities in the conduct of these 2025 elections.”

Without pointing to or providing any evidence to substantiate his allegations, he claimed that there were reports of Statements of Poll (SoPs) going missing, tampering with ballot boxes, and wholesale victimisation.

The WIN leader also pointed to voting by Commonwealth citizens who, in his view, did not reside in Guyana for the prescribed amount of time.

This claim was echoed by Norton in a video which was posted on the APNU Coalition’s Facebook page just after Mohamed released his.

GECOM, however, has already responded to similar allegations in an earlier response to the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) and its partner organisations.

Describing the allegations as “mischievous,” GECOM said that both countries are members of the Commonwealth, and the law provides for Commonwealth citizens 14 years and older, residing legally in Guyana for at least one year, to be registered as electors and, once meeting the age requirement, to vote.

“Every citizen from Commonwealth countries, not limited to the two about which the GHRA is concerned, who meet the criteria, qualify for registration and, by extension, to vote at elections,” the Commission explained.

Once registered, they are entitled to the same rights as Guyanese citizens.

GECOM also rejected criticisms surrounding the issuance of ID cards, noting that for over two decades, the nationality field on the application form for Commonwealth citizens has been marked with the letter “C.”

“Suddenly, this becomes a problem of the GHRA,” the Commission said

The Commission dismissed claims about “foreign voters” being covertly inserted into the OLE as baseless, emphasising that every entry met statutory requirements.

In addition to this issue, which has been thoroughly addressed by GECOM, both Norton and WIN requested recounts of the votes in various regions.

Norton is requesting recounts in Regions Four, Seven and Ten, all of which his coalition lost to WIN, which now appears to be an ally.

The APNU leader, while addressing his party’s loss in Region Ten during a previous interview, had suggested that rival forces might have used money to sway voters.

“Unfortunately, in these elections, a lot of money played its role, and I think Linden might have been the victim of the money that was circulated,” Norton said during a social media interview, on Tuesday.

In Region Four, where he said the results seemed “implausible,” APNU got 46,956 votes, WIN secured 41,607 votes, and the PPP/C got 87,536— an increase of just over 6,000 when compared to 2020.

In 2020, APNU, which contested with its coalition partner Alliance For Change (AFC), secured 116,941 votes. Considering the low voter turnout, WIN’s major influence on APNU supporters, and the PPP/C’s increased support in Region Four, APNU would have to carefully analyse its performance and how to recover.

Its request for a recount in a sub-district in Region Four, however, has been granted by GECOM and will be done on Thursday, September 4.