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May 17, 2015 News
– PPP fought to the end to derail declaration of this
By Abena Rockcliffe
The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) exhausted all avenues to prevent this; the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) yesterday officially declared that the A Partnership For National Unity and Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) has won the 2015 General and Regional Elections.
David Arthur Granger is now the President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana.
GECOM’s declaration was made five days after elections were held. This was the case even though GECOM completed its work way before. The official
announcement was pushed back a few times as a result of the outgoing political party’s refusal to accepted defeat.
The PPP/C called for numerous recounts. First, the Party called for a recount of ballots in some of the districts. Then it called for a recount of some of the ballots in all districts. When not satisfied with that, the PPP/C then called on GECOM to conduct a general recount.
Up to yesterday, PPP/C Commissioners were insistent that no final declaration should be made as they pointed to so called “irregularities” and a few questionable statements of polls. This delayed the official announcement by one hour.
Kaieteur News understands that the six-member Commission was split on whether GECOM’s Chief Elections Officer (CEO), Keith Lowenfield should have gone ahead with the final declaration. GECOM Chairman, Dr. Steve Surujbally, who had to make the casting vote, decided against any further stall to the final declaration.
The final results of the General and Regional elections as announced by Lowenfield show APNU+AFC with 207,200 votes and the PPP/C with 202, 694 votes. This represented an APNU+AFC victory over PPP/C by 4506 votes.
Lowenfield explained that the APNU+AFC will have 33 seats in the Eleventh Parliament while the PPP/C will have 32 seats.
After Lowenfield’s announcement, Dr. Surujbally declared Granger the new President of Guyana.
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