In dismissing the elections petition appeal on Monday, Chancellor of the Judiciary (ag), Yonette Cummings-Edwards rejected the argument that the genesis of the recount order for the March 2020 general elections had transgressed the separation of powers doctrine.
Lawyers for the petitioners, Claudette Thorne and Heston Bostwick had had as one of the planks in their appeal that the separation of powers doctrine had been breached by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) in promulgating the recount order to settle the dispute over the elections results.
Justice Cummings-Edwards in rendering her decision at the Guyana Court of Appeal disagreed.
Alluding to Section 22 of the Election Laws (Amendment) Act 2001 the acting chancellor of the judiciary said “I find no breach of the separation of powers doctrine”.