Promising “this will not be the end of my political career. I will be on the ground,” the City of Georgetown’s outgoing Mayor Ubraj Naraine declared during a press conference yesterday that the way is clear for a transition to occur.
Narine did not contest this year’s Local Government Elections.
The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is expected to declare the results of the Georgetown votes and who will be City’s newly-elected representatives sometime today. Of the 30 representatives from 15 constituencies across the city, one person will be elected Mayor when the new City Council meets.
Narine said that there will be a smooth transition from him to the next mayor since all the necessary documents have been prepared and will be handed over to the next Mayor.
Narine said he looks forward to continuing political work when he leaves office.
“Demitting the Office of the Mayor will give me more opportunities.” He said that he intends on working alongside his colleagues in A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) to secure more support for the 2025 General and Regional Elections.
“I will work hard with my people, we got more work to do and we can do it”, he said. Narine also mentioned that more groundwork will be done to maintain APNU’s control of Georgetown beyond this year’s LGE.
After the 2018 LGE, Narine was elected Mayor. Narine had won Consti-tuency One (Kingston East and West, Thomas Lands, Nonpareil Park, Cum-mingsburg, Alberttown and Queenstown). That year, APNU won 21 of the 30 seats of the City Council; the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) clinched seven seats and the Alliance For Change (AFC) secured two seats.
Narine’s tenure as mayor has been filled with contention and claims that he achieved little.
