Western missions here will help to set up meetings in their respective capitals for the PPP/C to alert the international community about election rigging fears, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo announced yesterday while insisting that President David Granger’s unilateral appointment of Justice James Patterson as Gecom Chairman, is a departure from the Carter formula which both the PNC and the PPP had complied from the inception.
Jagdeo also criticized Granger for setting criteria which included that a nominee must not be politically aligned when he himself, whilst being a member of the PNC allowed himself to be nominated twice for the position of Gecom Chairman.
Speaking at his weekly press conference yesterday, Jagdeo stated that last week he engaged members of the diplomatic community inclusive of the ABC countries and the EU.