The American, British, Canadian and EU Diplomatic Representatives walked out of the tabulation of votes for Region 4 this morning less than two hours after it began, claiming that they will be issuing a statement.

When the Returning Officer started the process this morning following yesterday’s objections to him using a spreadsheet process, he announced that he will be doing the tabulation by statements of poll as requested by the PPP.

Initially, he indicated that he would be starting the process from the top but there were objections to that since over 400 statements had already been completed earlier.

When the tabulation process eventually got underway, the PPP complained that its numbers were not matching the numbers of the original SoP being used by GECOM. There were loud objections by the PPP representatives and representatives of some of the small parties.

That led to a noisy atmosphere but the Returning Officer and his Clerk continued to do their tabulation job above the noise.

It was at that stage that the western diplomats were seen exiting the building and walking together to their cars.

The four diplomats have issued a number of statements in relation to the tabulation process. They have also been forwarding messages to their home countries, triggering stronger statements from their governments.

A Chief Justice decision vitiated the first Region Four declaration resulting in a return to the process.

Just yesterday, the EU Observer team requested that GECOM provides its observers with the Commission’s Statements of Poll that it is using.

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