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Guyanese will go to the polls on November 28 to elect a new government.
President Bharrat Jagdeo named the election date in a short one sentence proclamation which reads:
“President Bharrat Jagdeo has just issued a proclamation declaring Monday, November 28th 2011 as the date for the holding of General and Regional Elections in Guyana.”
President Jagdeo told reporters at the Office of the President that he had just received notification from Guyana Elections Commission Chairman Dr. Steve surujbally that the Official List of Electors, also known as the final voters list, was now ready.
The letter from Dr. Surjbally stated:
“Excellency, please be apprised that the Official List of Electors has been prepared in accordance with the provisions of the National Registration Act Chapter 19:08, the Registration of the People Act Chapter 103, the Elections Laws (Amendment) Act No. of 2000. Please be further informed that the Official List of Electors has been duly certified by Mr. Gocool Boodoo, Commissioner of Registration, Chief Election Officer and is now ready for publication,” Dr. Surujbally said.
According to GECOM, November 14 is the earliest possible date by which it would be ready for the polls. Nomination Day, the day on which the contesting parties will submit their Lists of Candidates, will automatically fall 32 days before the election date when it is eventually revealed.
According to the Office of the President, the November 28 election date gives political parties some six weeks to field candidates for the sixty five seat parliament which was dissolved last month to make way for the elections.
President Jagdeo will not be seeking re-election as he is constitutionally barred from doing so having already served two terms in that office.
His party, the People’s Progressive party, the PPP has put up General Secretary, Donald Romatar as their presidential candidate, while the opposition, a seven party coalition the APNU, has fielded retired Brigadier General David Granger as their presidential candidate.
President Bharrat Jagdeo named the election date in a short one sentence proclamation which reads:
“President Bharrat Jagdeo has just issued a proclamation declaring Monday, November 28th 2011 as the date for the holding of General and Regional Elections in Guyana.”
President Jagdeo told reporters at the Office of the President that he had just received notification from Guyana Elections Commission Chairman Dr. Steve surujbally that the Official List of Electors, also known as the final voters list, was now ready.
The letter from Dr. Surjbally stated:
“Excellency, please be apprised that the Official List of Electors has been prepared in accordance with the provisions of the National Registration Act Chapter 19:08, the Registration of the People Act Chapter 103, the Elections Laws (Amendment) Act No. of 2000. Please be further informed that the Official List of Electors has been duly certified by Mr. Gocool Boodoo, Commissioner of Registration, Chief Election Officer and is now ready for publication,” Dr. Surujbally said.
According to GECOM, November 14 is the earliest possible date by which it would be ready for the polls. Nomination Day, the day on which the contesting parties will submit their Lists of Candidates, will automatically fall 32 days before the election date when it is eventually revealed.
According to the Office of the President, the November 28 election date gives political parties some six weeks to field candidates for the sixty five seat parliament which was dissolved last month to make way for the elections.
President Jagdeo will not be seeking re-election as he is constitutionally barred from doing so having already served two terms in that office.
His party, the People’s Progressive party, the PPP has put up General Secretary, Donald Romatar as their presidential candidate, while the opposition, a seven party coalition the APNU, has fielded retired Brigadier General David Granger as their presidential candidate.
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