The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) has asked its supporters to remain vigilant and calm and to stay home until guidance from the Party.
In a statement issued following the withdrawal of the High Level CARICOM team the party declared that if a swearing-in were to occur on the basis of the current elections results they will treat President David and the government as “illegal and illegitimate”
Further they committed to pursuing “the serious consequences from the United States” promised by US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo as well as sanctions for the members of the APNU+AFC Coalition, their families, their cronies, and their collaborators.
According to the party the past two weeks have exposed the complicity of some staff of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) and certain high-ranking members of the APNU+AFC Coalition to perpetrate electoral fraud on the Guyanese people; undermine democracy; and expose Guyana to isolation in the free world.
“Within a matter of days, we have had two fraudulent declarations of election results in Region 4 by a compromised Returning Officer, Clairmont Mingo, maneuvers that undercut transparency and credibility in the electoral process and, today, efforts to frustrate and undermine an agreement for a CARICOM supervised recount of votes from the 2020 Elections,” the statement claimed.
Noting that it was Granger who called the CARICOM Chair, Barbados’ Prime Minister, Mia Mottley, to say he did not want to be sworn in on the basis of disputed election results and requested a high-level CARICOM team to supervise a recount of the ballots, the party condemned the filing of an injunction to block the agreed action.
They stressed that these two things have exposed the president as duplicitous.
“In addition to the delay in signing the aide-memoire, there have been consistent efforts by Granger’s agents to undermine the CARICOM agreement, which he himself requested. The latest episode in this saga is having Ulita Moore, who was an APNU+AFC Coalition candidate, file an injunction to stop the recount,” the statement said.
They also criticized the moves by the APNU+AFC Coalition to mobilize protesters across the country, with calls for Granger to be sworn in as president claiming that this shows the extent to which this rigging cabal would go to destroy democracy.
“The global community has seen the true nature of Mr. Granger and his cabal. This is now revealed, firsthand, to the leaders of CARICOM. They, too, will not be able to recognize his illegal and illegitimate regime should he move forward to be sworn in based on fraudulent results,” the statement concluded.
