Presidential Candidate of the Forward Guyana Movement (FGM), Amanza Walton- Desir, has again raised concern over the Official List of Electors (OLE), which has been made public by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).

According to GECOM’s data, the Official List of Electors has a total of 757,690 electors,which is almost the same as the country’s population from the last Census, and 100,000 more electors than 2020.

During a live broadcast on social media last evening, Ms. Walton-Desir described the current situation as a recipe for disaster.

“We have been trying to get information on GECOM and the voter’s list, now we have a situation where, we don’t know how many foreigners are on our list, we don’t know how many Commonwealth citizens are on our list, this is a problem because it means that there are people and through the machinations of the PPP, will get on our list and thwart the will of the people of Guyana, this is serious business” Walton Desir said.

The combined Opposition parties over the last five years called on GECOM to conduct house-to-house registration to generate a new voters’ list and to introduce biometrics at the place of polling to guard against any possibility of multiple voting.  Those requests were not met.

The Forward Guyana Movement Presidential Candidate Leader has stated that the list remains problematic for a number of reasons.

She argued thatalthough the Chief Election Officer gave assurances that the last period when deaths were transferred to the Registrar’s office was in February this year, there is clear evidence that persons who died more than decade ago remain on the voters’ list.

“If the larger and older parties do not want to hold GECOM’s foot to the fire, Forward Guyana will do it because this is absolute nonsense, I cannot understand how they expect us to go to an election as if these discrepancies are not there, GECOM is operating as if these elections caught them by surprise,” She stated.  

Walton-Desir said both GECOM and the Government appear to be playing in the faces of Guyanese, at a time when majority of the country is clamouring for change.

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