Faced with mounting pressure by the international community over the Coalition’s insistence on holding on to power despite defeat in a No Confidence motion a year and a half ago and now through elections, Attorney General Basil Williams Tuesday urged the Organisation of American States (OAS) to “give us a chance.”
But even in doing so, he insisted that the Coalition APNU+AFC has won the elections despite the fact that the only figures in play are those of a national vote recount which showed clearly that the Opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) beat APNU+AFC by 15, 416 votes and so President David Granger and APNU+AFC lost the seat of government.
Williams was speaking at a special meeting of the OAS’ Permanent Council. The meeting was called specifically to discuss the elections.
In the face of calls by the international community for there to be a peaceful transition of power, Williams said there can be no peaceful transition because the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has not yet declared a winner.
It is APNU+AFC which has mounted the legal challenges that seek to bury the results of the recount and use fraudulent figures to keep itself in power.
But Williams argued that since there has not been a declaration by GECOM the action of the OAS to hold a special meeting on Guyana, which could lead to sanction, was not timed correctly.
“All of this is premature,” he said of the members of the OAS who have been heaping pressure on the Coalition to accept defeat or the country will face crippling sanctions.
Despite a population hard pressed by COVID-19 and tired by the protracted political crisis brought on by APNU+AFC’s refusal to give up power, Williams told the OAS that there was no “doom and gloom” and that no “chaotic situation exists.”
APNU+AFC claims to have won the elections even though a national vote recount streamed live clearly established the PPP as the winner of the elections.
The Coalition has used the mountain of unsubstantiated claims of anomalies and irregularities to press its case that there was “corruption” discovered during the recount.
But APNU+AFC has stayed clear of the fraud perpetuated in District Four that caused the corruption of the entire electoral process.
And it is those fraudulent votes, thousands of which were invented in its favour, that Granger’s APNU+AFC is seeking to have declared as the results of the elections so it could stay in power.
If they actually thought there was “anomalies” uncovered during the recount they should have quickly called in the Carter Centre, EU, OAS, All other observers and proved it. Craptain Cream and others talking of it in the media tent were NOT proof at all or even remotely close. In fact not a shred of proof as come forward. The list of names that was forwarded to the Immigration was speedily debunked as “erroneous” . Most importantly GECOM is not an investigation Commission. That is for a judge in an election petition. I fully expect the AG with his legion of lawyers and the Minister of Foreign affairs to file a petition one day after President Ali is sworn in and I expect they will trot out all 265,000 dead people who voted and bring their proof to Court.
They are liars corrupted officials and artists and care nothing about democracy just power grabbing dictators and wants power at all cost and depriving the people of reality. Time to protest in Guyana. If it was a black state with no Indos there will be civil war already and protests every day. The indos are too peaceful so the APNU are making a mockery of Guyana and democracy.
It is now clear beyond a reasonable doubt that the Apnu/AFC are insane.And the law enforcement agency should move in and arrest them all.This will put and end to this craziness that is taking place in Guyana. This is the only solution, get them out of the place.Or else they will continue with their madness.For they don’t know anything better.
The APNU is one of the most crooked party in the world full of shit loss but want to remain in power by cheating and no recount and recount and distraction and court challenges 100 times will change anything the defy the people. People who support the PPP/Civic time to protests against there rights have been taken away by cowards who are power hungry dictators and corrupted officials.mr Granger is army guy these guys love power at all cost and Amin Mugabe Maduro Hilter and will Stalin Saddam Hussein and others are there buddies in arms.