FORMER GOVERNMENT TO CHALLENGE ELECTION RESULTS IN COURT

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 August 29, 2020 – Guyana’s main opposition, A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) having lost the March 2 General and Regional elections, will be filing two election petitions in the High Court, to challenge the recent declaration which gave electoral victory to the People’s Progressive Party (PPP).

APNU+AFC is maintaining that the court will be asked to deliberate on a wide range of concerns to include rejected ballots, no use of oaths of identity, and substitute voting in the names of deceased persons as well as persons who were overseas on March 2, 2020.

Alliance for Change (AFC) Chairman Mr. Raphael Trotman said last Friday at an online press briefing, that there has been heightened interest both in Guyana and overseas to go along that route. He said filing multiple petitions is necessary given the success rate of such applications.

The former minister said that it is also always important to have multiple petitions, so if there is a defect in one, that defect will not be found in the other.

Mr. Trotman said the expectation is that that application will be considered and approved speedily by the court, as was the case for other legal matters particularly during the highly contentious pre and post elections period.

The AFC executive explained that the party will use information from the recount process in its applications to the court, particularly as it relates to allegations of migrant voters, names of persons believed to be dead but were listed as voted and missing pollbooks, among others.

An application for leave to file an election petition regarding the 2020 elections has already been filed with the High Court. The application was made on Thursday, August 27 by Attorney Mr. Roysdale Forde on behalf of applicants, Ms. Claudette Thorne and Mr. Heston Bostwick.

The attorney listed in this application are Mr. Forde, Mr. Trotman, Trinidad Senior Counsel Mr. John Jeremie and Ms. Olayne Joseph.

Caribzone.com News understands that a string of recent arrests and detention of top personnel from the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), has raised the possibility of violent clashes between afro and Indo Guyanese.

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