After nearly two years of demanding that the Parliamentary Opposition recognized its legitimacy, the Ali regime seems to be coming around to the reality that the request also has no legitimacy. Aubrey Norton, Leader of the People’s National Congress/Reform, in responding to a question during its weekly press conference last week stated, “The question of the legitimacy of the Government has to be determined by an election petition. It is not a case of the Leader of the Opposition or the Leader of the Party just deciding the Government is legitimate. Legitimacy comes from elections in this regard.’’
In a subsequent Facebook post, the Attorney General Anil Nandlall concurred with the statement by the PNCR leader. “It is not within the purview, remit, or power of the Leader of the Opposition to determine the legitimacy of the Government,” the AG explained.
The AG, however, disagrees with Norton that the legitimacy of the Government has to be determined by an election petition. “No, Mr. Norton, you are reasoning in the reverse. The election petition may determine that the Government is illegitimate,” the AG argued. Further, Nandlall believes that legitimacy of the March 2nd 2020 elections is assured by the clean bill of health given to it by all local and international observers accredited to do so.
The local Private Sector Commission (PSC), whose Chairman Paul Chung is a member of the People’s Progressive Party and was on it’s List of Candidates at the March 2020 elections, was one such local organization that approved the results of the 2020 elections.
The Organization of American States (OAS) which was accused of removing Eva Morales, President of Bolivia, based on allegations of election fraud, also granted their stamp of approval on the March 2020 elections in Guyana. In a report done by Jake Johnson and Jake Rosnick titled: ‘Observing the Observers: the OAS in the 2019 Bolivian Elections’. It was proven that the OAS claims were false; engineered to remove the Morales Government.
It should be highlighted also that the controversial 1997 elections which was first declared won by the PPPC, was vitiated and deemed unconstitutional two years later by then Justice Claudette Singh, the present Chairwoman of GECOM.
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