Two days after the Guyana Elections Commission promised free, fair, transparent and credible elections this year, the Leader of the Alliance For Change, Nigel Hughes, scoffed at the statement and explained that the statement from GECOM does not offer any confidence to the electorate.

He said his party is maintaining its calls for a total reform and overhaul of the elections body before this year’s elections.

“You would have to be possessed of the most creative imagination if any institution after having admitting the errors that GECOM admitted to recently, after having fail to rectify the Dr. Kissoon issue, solely as a result of their own recommendation, after have a slew of missteps, and after have every election challenged for someone reason or the other that anybody would repose some confidence or attribute any credibility to any institution like GECOM,” Mr. Hughes said.

The two largest Opposition political parties, the PNC/R and the AFC have already said they have no confidence in GECOM to execute credible elections this year.

Hughes today said GECOM has consistently demonstrated its inability and incapacity and cannot expect Guyanese to take any statement from the current body seriously

“We would like to repeat everything that we would have said before in relation to GECOM including having the Chair of GECOM resign from her position, we are now in 2025 and upon GECOM’s admission we have a person who continue to sit in the National Assembly who as a result of their error ought not to be there and they have not had the decency to provide to this country, any course of action that they intend to take to rectify their error,” Mr. Hughes stated.

GECOM yesterday condemned insinuations that the Commission is colluding with persons to rig the 2025 elections and promised a transparent electoral process.

The Commission said it will continue to execute its constitutional mandate to deliver free, free and credible elections.

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