Georgetown : The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has requested from the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) a recount of ballots in some areas of our country. This became necessary after it was realized that some of the PPP counting agents were forced to flee some polling places out of fear. While it was declared that voting was generally free and fair, as the counting phase began, some of the agents were intimidated and flee for their own safety.
In addition to this, the PPP have noticed an extremely high number of rejected ballots which we believe may have resulted following the absence of PPP counting agents in these areas.
The party's statement says "we believe that in keeping with electoral laws, voter’s intent must be taken into consideration. Also, in some places there was an unusually high turnout of voters which raises suspicion of possible electoral transgression.
The PPP notes the comments made by the APNU-AFC Co-Chair, Mr. Raphael Trotman, who is calling for the recount to be disallowed. Our Party stands firm in this regard.
Our Party is pleased that GECOM has accepted our call for the recount and ask that all be patient until this process in complete. In making this call, we reiterate the need for everyone to remain calm and for GECOM to be allowed GECOM to fulfill its mandate.
Further, it was reported that the PPP did not document various electoral transgression that occurred on elections day. This is far from the truth as a number of emails were sent, and which can be produced to show the contrary."
President Donald Ramotar disputed the figures released by APNU-AFC with regards to the elections. The PPP repeats that those numbers are very misleading and would only serve to create a false sense of expectation among Opposition supporters. Just to note one example, the Opposition claimed that in Region 6 it received some 23,520 votes as against 30,501 for the PPP.
"Our tabulation from the Statements Of Poll shows that for the same Region, the PPP received 39, 597 and the APNU-AFC coalition got 22, 017. While we are cognizant that only GECOM can legally release the official results, we believe that the Opposition misinformation campaign must not be allowed to go unchallenged" the part contended.
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