Guyana’s next general elections will be held in November or December 2025 owing to the five-month impasse that followed the 2020 polls.
“Many people believe that this is really the two-thirds point in the term of the People’s Progressive Party in office. It is not. As you know, elections will be held sometime in November or December of 2025,” Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo, who is also the PPP/C General Secretary, told a press conference yesterday.
“So there is still nearly another three years to go, largely because of the extended delay that we had in declaring the [2020] results. And then, the period after convening Parliament you have a three-month period to hold the elections,” he added, which the PPP/C calculates to be late 2025.
Five months after the March 2, 2020 polls and a series of legal battles, the PPP/C was finally declared the winner of the elections and its candidate Irfaan Ali subsequently sworn in as the country’s ninth executive president, on August 2, 2020.
Jagdeo said that in the next three years of Ali’s term, the party will continue the plans to meet its promises. “There is time in the future to implement the aggressive plans that we have laid out to transform this country,” he said.
There are currently several criminal cases, all stemming from the 2020 polls, before the local courts. Separately, the Court of Appeal’s decision is pending on whether the High Court should again hear an election petition from the APNU+AFC.
In addition, a Commission of Inquiry, the result of a promise by Ali to investigate the attempt to rig the March 2020 polls in favour of the former APNU+AFC government, is wrapping up.
The inquiry was mandated to pay particular attention to District Four, which was the epicentre of those attempts. This information was contained in its Terms of Reference.
