The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has tasked its Chief Election Officer with reviewing the work plan for the hosting of the overdue Local Government Elections (LGE) since the proposed date of December 12, 2022, falls outside of the legal timeframe.
The directive was related by Commissioner Vincent Alexander following GECOM’s statutory meeting yesterday. He told Stabroek News that while the Commission is aiming to ideally have the election held by the end of November, the work plan proposed by CEO Vishnu Persaud has a proposed date of December 12, which falls outside of the legal timeframe by a few days.
Both Alexander and government-nominated Commissioner Sase Gunraj related that there are proposed tweaks to the work plan for LGE before everything is finalised. Gunraj told Stabroek News that the Commission made some suggestions on how it wanted the plan expanded to accommodate the upcoming polls and those will be incorporated by CEO Persaud.