The recount exercise at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre is repeatedly confirming that the Returning Officer (RO) of the largest constituency, Region 4, Clairmont Mingo inflated numbers for incumbent President David Granger’s A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) coalition dominated by the People’s National Congress (PNC) and deflated numbers for their main rival the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) during the tabulation process.
This week, the masked Mr Harmon stepped up his party’s ongoing public relations and disinformation campaign declaring in a one-man video broadcast on its Facebook page that the governing APNU+AFC had won the elections, even while stating there was major fraud, claiming that a preliminary report by the party has now unearthed “qualitative irregularities” in a staggering 86,387 votes.
The PPP shot back, “Although the National Recount Exercise is proceeding slowly, with every passing day it establishes not only the magnitude of the fraud committed (for APNU+AFC) but also confirms the accuracy of the Statements of Poll that the PPP/C made public.
He accused the entire GECOM machinery that worked on Elections Day, APNU+AFC polling agents, and the seven other Political Parties that participated in the elections of being in a conspiracy with the PPP/C to enable the PPP/C to rig the elections.
Yet in the end, he said that the APNU+AFC has won those very Elections…”
“GECOM can no longer remain silent on this matter,” the party reiterated, calling on Justice Singh “to respond to this devious and malicious attack…on GECOM’s integrity and the integrity of thousands of Guyanese who worked honestly and diligently to deliver free and fair elections-day activities which have been so certified by all the accredited Local and International Observers Teams.
