Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon has voiced support for the calls for the establishment of an independent panel to select a new Chief Election Officer (CEO) for the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) even as he opined that some of the identified applicants are a “no-no.”
Echoing a call by the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) for an independent panel, Harmon said that Guyanese desire a sense of confidence from the elections process, before adding that the Commission sometimes comes up with decisions that “come out of left field” and which are only heard of long after the fact.
“So, when we put an important matter like the selection of a CEO into the hands of this same Com-mission, Guyanese people would not have the confidence,” said Harmon, the leader of the main opposition APNU+AFC, during a press conference on Tuesday.