Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday disputed figures from the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) that 10,329 first-time registrants were verified during the recent verification exercise.
According to Jagdeo, numbers crunched by the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) indicated that only 8,000 persons were reached.
On Monday, GECOM reported that of the 16,863 persons who registered for the first time during the 2019 house-to-house (HtH) exercise, and who were earmarked for verification, 10,329 registrants were verified, while 6,534 were not.