By Johann Earle
Recounts were underway last evening in three regions after requests by the ruling PPP/C and the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) said the process would have an impact on the timeliness of the declaration of official results.
GECOM also said that Statements of Poll from districts 1, 7, 8 and 9 were yet to be received by mid afternoon yesterday.
Both major opposition parties APNU and AFC objected to the recounting, while TUF said it did not mind. The PPP/C did not release any details of its requests for recounts, but GECOM spokesperson Vishnu Persaud said