ATTORNEY General and Legal Affairs Minister, Anil Nandlall, SC, has said continued claims that the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) rigged the 2020 General and Regional Elections will result in the opposition losing further electoral support.
Nandlall emphasised this point during his weekly programme, “Issues in the News,” while discussing the ongoing trial into alleged electoral fraud arising from the March 2020 General and Regional Elections.
“Once they continue to peddle that narrative that the PPP/C rigged those elections, they will continue to lose more votes at the elections,” Nandlall said. He said that he had made the same point consistently on his programme between 2020 and 2025.
He was also critical of what he described as racist rhetoric being promoted on political platforms and social media groups. He pointed to the racist rhetoric being promoted on Politics 101, the programme hosted by Working People’s Alliance (WPA) co-leader Dr David Hinds, and on other political platforms.
He noted, “Once they continue to peddle the type of racism that is being peddled on Politics 101 and the cliques that gather on that and those types of platforms, they will continue to hemorrhage.”
Nandlall linked what he described as the opposition’s continued promotion of those narratives to its decline in parliamentary representation.
He noted, “And that is why they move from 32 seats to 12 seats.”
Nandlall was pointing to the opposition’s reduced parliamentary representation following the 2025 elections, when the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), led by Aubrey Norton, secured 12 seats, compared with the 31 seats won by the APNU+AFC coalition in 2020.
The newly formed We Invest in Nationhood (WIN), led by US-sanctioned businessman Azruddin Mohamed, secured 16 seats in 2025, making it the largest opposition party in the National Assembly.
He further warned that continued promotion of “stupendous narratives” could result in the opposition losing more seats. “Continue with those stupendous narratives and you will lose more seats. If you don’t listen, then you will learn,” Nandlall warned.
His comments came as the 2020 election fraud trial continues before the court, with forensic auditor Terrence Jaskaran currently giving evidence.
The Attorney General also addressed commentary surrounding Jaskaran’s evidence, stating the auditor’s political views expressed on Facebook do not affect the figures contained in the Statements of Poll that he examined.
According to him, Jaskaran examined official Statements of Poll and compared them with declarations made by then Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) Returning Officer Clairmont Mingo on March 5 and March 13, 2020.
Nandlall said the auditor’s evidence showed discrepancies between the statements of poll and the declared results, including what he described as an additional 20,000 votes for APNU+AFC and a reduction of 15,000 votes attributed to the PPP/C.
He maintained that Jaskaran’s political posts could not change the figures contained in the statements of poll. Nandlall asserted, “The statements of poll are there.”
The Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the 2020 elections found that former Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield, former Deputy Chief Elections Officer Roxanne Myers and Mingo made what it described as “shockingly brazen attempts” to derail and corrupt the legally prescribed process for counting, ascertaining and tabulating votes.
The CoI said the attempts were aimed at preventing the true results from being declared.
