The People’s Progressive Party’s (PPP) nominee to the post of Elections Commissioner, Attorney-at-Law Sase Rabindranauth Gunraj was sworn in at the Office of the President on Tuesday by President Donald Ramotar.
GINA said that Ramotar in brief remarks said that Gunraj fills a post vacated by Dr Keshav ‘Bud’ Mangal due to ill-health.
“It is important that this vacancy be filled quickly because of the fact that we are going towards an elections. This job has now been completed”. The president added that the new commissioner will make a valuable contribution at this point in time.
The PPP representative on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) acknowledged that he was joining the organisation at a crucial time.
“I am prepared to, proverbially, hit the ground running and make my contribution in the best way possible to the holding of successful elections in May and thereafter, as the need arises at the commission”, GINA reported him as saying.
