By Peter Richards
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, Jul 29, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders Monday took a cautious approach towards the results of the presidential elections in Venezuela where officials there said the incumbent, Nicolas Maduro, had retained power.
Guyana’s President Dr. Irfaan Ali, told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) that an election has a number of components, including the operations and arrangement before the polls.
He said other components would include “the elections itself on election day and of course, the mechanisms after the election, the mechanisms to ensure that the votes are counted” and that “there is a credible process of verification”.
Ali said that there is also the need for a credible process “that allows persons to request what the law entertains — recount and so on.
“So those are all competence of the election. We are not pronouncing, we cannot pronounce one way or the other. As I said, we don’t have details before us. But those are the components that we support in any democratic elections,” Ali told CMC.
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