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Apr 21, 2015 News
The Justice and Peace Commission (JPC) of the Catholic Church, has announced that it is launching a campaign initiative to monitor the content of political speeches at the public meetings in the final stages of the run up to General and Regional Elections on May 11th.
JPC said that the purpose of the campaign monitoring initiative is to increase public/Catholic participation in an important element of the democratic process and helping to identify infringements/breaches of the Party Code of Conduct, expected to be signed shortly.
The monitoring will also look to deter inflammatory and reckless political campaign speeches in a sensitive period.
“This initiative is all the more important given the recent display of irresponsible, reckless and vulgar behaviour on the Essequibo Coast with lynched effigies of the Opposition’s Presidential and Prime Ministerial candidates being placed on a utility pole.”
JPC said that such crass public displays are highly inflammatory and insensitive during national elections and can only serve to stoke existing political and ethnic tensions.
“The JPC is calling for volunteers from members of the public, especially Catholics, to implement this initiative. Volunteers will attend public meetings, fill out a prepared campaign monitoring form, and forward these to the JPC for later analysis and public release.”
JPC said it is inviting persons who are interested in volunteering to contact them at [email protected] or at its offices at the Justice and Peace Commission, Roman Catholic Diocese of Georgetown, Bishop’s House, Brickdam.
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