Chief Justice Roxane George Wednesday afternoon ruled that the Returning Officer for the country’s largest electoral district, District Four, had breached the law in the adding up of Statements of Poll and should return to the process, whether to start afresh or to continue where they left off.
As such, she ruled that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) cannot declare the overall results until the Returning Officer complies with the law. As such, she set aside the declaration made last Thursday.
She ordered that Returning Officer or the Deputy Returning Officer must return to the process by 11 a.m. on Thursday, March 12.
She said that it was saddening that 19 years after a similar case, she had to restate the words of then Chief Justice Desiree Bernard, that the role of GECOM is to take action to ensure impartiality, fairness and compliance with the law.
She said every effort must be made to ensure that everyone is satisfied that the process is fair. She added that confidence in the electoral process must be restored.
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