GECOM Chairman, Dr Steve Surujbally and Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma on Sunday agreed that there were too many steps in the system for the release of election results and that these could be reduced in the future.
The slow and inconsistent flow of election results in past general elections has prompted severe criticism of the Guy- ana Elections Commission (GECOM) which had nevertheless maintained that it would not sacrifice accuracy of results for speed. Transmission of this year’s results was again rife with problems and generated concerns among many stakeholders in society.
The matter was also addressed by several observer groups including the Commonwealth and Sharma,