A New and United Guyana (ANUG) yesterday said that the GECOM Chair Claudette Singh continues to show weakness by indulg-ing Chief Election Officer’s (CEO) Keith Lowenfield’s “gross professional misconduct” and it urged her to fire the “ignoble” CEO and get on with the Commission’s business.
Singh has given Lowenfield a fourth opportunity to deliver the results of the recount and this is to be done by 2 pm today.
In a statement, ANUG said that Lowenfield’s willful recalcitrance through his submission of fraudulent numbers and failure to attend a meeting of national importance of GECOM on July 11th “warrants not only summary dismissal but immediate criminal investigation”.
ANUG, which will occupy one seat in the new Parliament in tandem with two other parties, said that the CEO has frustrated the work of GECOM in delivering a declaration of the March 2nd general elections.
“ANUG once again reminds the Commission of its duty under (article 162(1) (b)) and cautions against the catastrophic consequences of breach of its duty. Where a democratic institution is populated at its highest level of office with persons operating under the influence of partisan forces in a conspiracy to subvert the will of the people, as expressed in an election, those sacred and protected rights of the people set out in Article 9 are desecrated by the very organ designed to protect it”.
