PPP General Secretary Clement Rohee yesterday said that the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) is not doing enough to educate the nation on this week’s local government elections.
“As far as we are concerned, the public relations of Gecom is still piss poor. They are not performing based on the budget that they have at their disposal,” Rohee said during the PPP’s weekly press conference.
He said there is still a large number of persons who don’t know where they have to vote and don’t know what the upcoming elections are all about. “We in the PPP/C, we are doing our part because long ago we realised that we can’t depend on Gecom to do anything for us,” he said, before adding that his party has been on a public relations campaign to ensure the message gets across to its supporters.
Rohee told reporters that Gecom should have been telling people “ever since” to come out with their ID cards when going to vote.
Gecom over the weekend published notices in the daily newspapers to this effect. This came in the wake of condemnation by the opposition PPP/C over the discovery that a number of joint services voters turned up without their ID cards to vote last week.
“They should keep doing it every single day,” he said.
