General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Bharrat Jagdeo is urging the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to ensure political parties utilize the designated forms to enlist nominators/backers for the upcoming elections.
He alleged that “some people are paying to get backers, and some are being misled and they not showing people the form.”
Jagdeo was referring to the prescribed GECOM form which includes a declaration that signatories are knowingly and willingly signing to support the list of candidates for a particular political party.
“I hope GECOM will rigidly enforce that the appropriate form is used because in the past…they will go with as blank sheet and get people to sign off and then they will add a covering letter and many of those people never even knew they were supporting a list of Candidates for a particular party, they may not even support that party,” he said.
Nominations Day is set for July 14.
Along with their logos, parties must submit their Lists of Candidates: one National Top-Up List, at least six Geographical Constituencies’ Lists, and the Regional Democratic Councils’ Lists. The National Top-Up list, which identifies the Presidential candidate, must have at least 42 candidates and between 300 and 330 nominators countrywide. Each Geographical Constituency List must have between 150 and 175 nominators from each geographical constituency.
Jagdeo noted that the PPP is currently vetting its Candidates and nominators since there are more interested persons than is required by the form.
This challenge, he alleged is reversed for other parties which are having a difficult time enlisting candidates or backers.
“One political party with a criminal enterprise linked to it is calling people…theyre looking for people to be on their list because people are afraid of being sanctioned or getting into trouble,” the PPP General Secretary said.
The PPP, Jagdeo said will be launching its campaign in early July where its entire manifesto for the September 1, 2025, elections will be unveiled.
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