Dear Editor,
I recently noticed two letters, one by Jhagroo Persaud and a response by former President, Donald Ramotar, making reference to the 2015 National and Regional Elections.
My recollection of those Elections is that the PPP/C objected to the results of a number of ballot boxes, based on their Statements of Poll (here we go again with SOP’s).
I distinctly remember that the PPP/C requested that twenty-two ballot boxes be recounted, to which, it is alleged, the GECOM Chairman, waffled, agreed and subsequently had a change of mind.
Fewer boxes were then requested, with the same scenario repeated.
Eventually the request was for one box to be recounted, and if found not to agree with the PPP/C’s SOP, they would give up the recount requests. However, if the recount agreed with the SOP’s of the PPP/C the twenty two boxes were to be recounted.
The GECOM Chairman is still to answer if this is in fact so, what prevented such a reasonable request. Unbelievable!!!
I’m convinced that this single action is what prompted the APNU+AFC to feel they could’ve bullied their way through the 2020 Elections.
I’m suggesting that to “settle’ this festering controversy, that the PPP/C withdraws the legal case, still languishing in the Courts, since its eventual outcome (if this ever happens) would only be academic.
After such withdrawal, the PPP/C, possibly through its GECOM Commissioners, should call for a recount of the twenty two boxes, previously identified, and which are currently stored in containers.
The recount would conclusively determine who won the 2015 Elections, again, if only to shut the mouths of all sides of this issue.
Kind regards,
Harry Narine Nawbatt
