The PPP is calling on the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) to publish the names and addresses of all elections staff that have been hired.
The party’s General Secretary Clement Rohee said that while the party was not casting aspersions on the commission’s hiring procedures the best way for Gecom to avoid suspicion was to be transparent. Rohee said at the party’s weekly press briefing held at Freedom House yesterday that by publishing names and addresses to would allow for “public vetting” and “confidence building.”
Rohee said the party was calling on “Gecom to publish the name and addresses of all those who have been recruited and trained thus far especially for the positions of returning officers, deputy returning officers, elections clerk, [and] clerical assistants.”
When asked by the media if this was a regular procedure the party’s