Representative of the APNU+AFC List of Candidates, David Granger has written to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) advising it to extract the names of Aubrey Norton and Volda Lawrence to fill the two empty seats in the National Assembly.
This has effectively set things in motion for Norton, who is also the leader of the People’s National Congress Reform – the largest faction of the APNU – to become a Member of Parliament after which he is expected to be elected as Leader of the Opposition. There has been no Opposition Leader for some 71 days now following the January 26, 2022 resignation of Joseph Harmon from the post. The vacant position has meant that constitutionally mandated consultations between the President and Opposition Leader cannot occur.