The major parties contesting the upcoming polls are being asked to shed light on the process that will be used to identify their prospective representatives in the National Assembly.
The Facing the Future (FtF) civil society coalition, which recently organised a forum on police reform, has invited the PPP/C, the APNU, the AFC and TUF to a public discussion to share the process they will use to compile their list of candidates for national elections and the procedures they will adopt to allocate seats. This is in response to what FtF says is the “anonymity surrounding the electoral system we employ in Guyana, in which there is zero accountability of elected representatives to voters.”
Mike McCormack, of the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA), which is one of the participation organisations in FtF, said that the coalition hopes the parties will participate in order to