As both of the major political campaigns announced results favouring them at Monday’s polls, the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) yesterday came under growing pressure to release official results but both Chairman Dr Steve Surujbally and Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield maintained that they were bound to follow the process stipulated by law.
Up to early last evening, Gecom had only officially released results from 5% of the country’s 2,299 polling places, while Surujbally and Lowenfield could not commit to saying when final results would be announced and noted that some Statements of Poll (SoPs) have not yet been received because of inclement weather.
Surujbally yesterday stressed that by law the commission is the only body authorised to release the results and