GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Aug 22, CMC – Members of the Disciplined Forces were casting ballots here on Friday as the ruling People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) brushed aside efforts by a small opposition coalition to go to the High Court to challenge its exclusion from the ballots for the September 1 general and regional election in regions that it is not contesting for council seats.
GECOM said there are 83 balloting stations and 67 ballot boxes for Friday’s polling and that 10,481 members of the Disciplined Services are eligible to vote, including 6,909 members of the Disciplined Services, 3,106 soldiers and 466 prison service employees.
It said 92 persons working at 20 diplomatic missions are listed to vote and that already, returns from two Diplomatic Missions have been received already in a sealed ballot box.
Deputy Chief Election Officer, Aneal Giddings, says so far there has been no issue since the polls opened.
“I don’t have no major issue that hampered the opening at all the locations across the spectrum. We have those aircraft movements that should be well underway from Ogle going to Region 8 and 9 and so on, and so as it is now, I have not received any untoward information that has been affecting polls”, Giddings said.
Six candidates are contesting the position of President during the elections. They are the incumbent, President Irfaan Ali of the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C), Aubrey Norton of the main coalition, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), Nigel Hughes of the Alliance for Change (AFC), Azruddin Mohamed of the We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) political party, Amanza Walton-Desir of the Forward Guyana Movement and the leader of the Assembly for Liberty & Prosperity (ALP) movement, Dr. Simona Broomes.
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