Foreign Affairs Minister Dr Karen Cummings in a bizarre defence of the Government’s campaign to bury the national vote recount to the Organisation of American States (OAS) on Tuesday described the report produced by a high-level team from CARICOM as a “fallacy; even more bizarre, she said the team did not stay to the conclusion.
Further, she told the members of the OAS, which includes the United States, Canada and Brazil, to “keep Guyana in your prayers.”
The Minister was invited to speak at a special meeting convened by the Permanent Council of the OAS.
The OAS has said the only solution to the electoral crisis is for the results of the recount, supervised by the CARICOM high-level team, to be respected. That would put David Granger, Cummings and the rest of the APNU+AFC out of office.
The world’s leading organisations including the OAS, the Commonwealth, and CARICOM, and the country’s leading development partners – the United Kingdom and the European Union – have urged that the CARICOM supervised recount be used to declare the winner of the elections.
But the Coalition, backed by Granger, doesn’t want the recount results to be used; they want the report prepared by the Chief Elections Officer, which included votes fraudulently tabulated to be used. That would give them victory instead of the Opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP).
After multiple speeches by representatives of various Governments, including St Vincent’s Permanent Ambassador to the OAS, who represented CARICOM, Dr Cummings persisted in discrediting the CARICOM supervised recount and the report of the High-Level team.
“…in our estimation it was not a representative sample and the end of it all they said it is reasonably credible.
“I don’t know…it’s either something is credible or not credible,” she stated in an incoherent statement.
“…they didn’t stay to the conclusion so it’s really unfair to make such a general – it’s a fallacy – a generalisation of a process which they haven’t concluded,” the Foreign Affairs Minister continued.
Just before that, she wanted former Attorney General Anil Nandlall to withdraw statements in which he said President Granger was behind the actions to dismantle the recount which he agreed to.
The Chair of the meeting did not prompt Nandlall to apologise and he offered none.
“There is no breakdown in law and order in Guyana,” Dr Cummings told the meeting. But then she took a swipe at the international community.
“Guyana continues to remain a peaceful, law-abiding State and through this lengthy process, which has been guided by several constitutional provisions, the people of Guyana have remained patient calm and peaceful.
“The international community should therefore also be patient and not seek to influence unduly the constitutional and legal processes which are currently ongoing in Guyana,” she declared.
An agent for Granger’s Coalition has moved to appeal a clear High Court decision which upheld the recount as valid and said the Chief Elections Officer must abide by the direction he is given to prepare a report in keeping with the results from the recount so a declaration of the winner of the elections can be made.
Oh Lord……please, if the entire world changed its mind and wanted the Granger Govt to remain in…..this is who would represent us? Just askin? When I look at all the great Guyanese that have represented this Country abroad……this is what we have come down to? Hon. Caretaker Minister, you need to rethink how you present certain “facts”.
Fallacy!! These people need to be locked away for a long time in the near future
The entire APNU party and Govt is completely corrupted and all the bais officials have forged and cook up all sort of schemes to try to win when they lost like hell. This is a dictatorship with Granger is one the worst President and leader in modern history and he part that he will axe in another way. He and his goons want to steal the election with lies and more lies using corrupted officials to remain in power for life. All the people involved in this conspiracy should be in jail. They hate democracy don’t want to give up power and blame everyone. It is time for Guyanese people to protest a monster that is in power and a power hungry dictator Granger and his side kicks. Guyana is no longer a democracy run by a tyrant who has stayed in power 12 more months don’t want to give power and remain another 4 months to fix the election to remain in power . He will lose in the end with all this crockery using his entire party to do this and he never know what hit as power could be demolished in minutes as the higher power those that screw they people will not survive even with all these tricks and lies. The recount show he lost but he is a bully not a man and the worst leader in history in Guyana and even the world. Burhnam is laughing in the graves here is my buddy trying to screw the people as I did. Granger is like Maduro Amin Burnham Mugabe Hilter and Stalin dictators of worst kind and it is really sad that Guyana has to put up wil crooks and monsters.
Goodbye apnu/afc. Your time is up.