PPP protests again for elections

By Stabroek News On In Guyana News |
Some of the PPP’s supporters protesting yesterday in Kingston, near the GECOM headquarters. They called once more for the holding of general elections and also urged against the holding of a national house-to-house registration exercise. See story on page 11. (Photo by Terrence Thompson)
Some of the PPP’s supporters protesting yesterday in Kingston, near the GECOM headquarters. They called once more for the holding of general elections and also urged against the holding of a national house-to-house registration exercise. See story on page 11. (Photo by Terrence Thompson)

Several hundred PPP supporters congregated on High Street between Barrack and Young streets, in Georgetown yesterday and called on the Guyana Elec-tions Commission (GECOM) to prepare for general and regional elections instead of carrying out house-to-house registration.

House-to-house registration, which is intended to create an updated registration database from where the voters’ list will be extracted, is scheduled to start today. Opposition leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that the PPP is contemplating legal action to prevent the exercise.

This is the second protest by the opposition following the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) ruling that the December 21, 2018 no-confidence motion against the APNU+AFC government was validly passed, in which supporters called for elections.