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Suri­name's In­de­pen­dent Elec­toral Of­fice (OKB) has ac­knowl­edged short­com­ings in at least one polling sta­tion, but dis­missed sug­ges­tions of ma­nip­u­la­tion or fraud, as vot­ers in the Dutch-speak­ing Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) coun­try still await the fi­nal re­sults of the elec­tions held on Sun­day.

In a state­ment, the OKB said that it is im­por­tant to pro­vide fur­ther ex­pla­na­tion re­gard­ing the sit­u­a­tion at polling sta­tion 614 in the Broko­pon­do dis­trict, af­ter one of the can­di­dates, Ronald Pansa, said his con­cerns were not be­ing tak­en se­ri­ous­ly.

“The con­cerns ex­pressed by can­di­date Ronald Pansa have been re­ceived and are not tak­en light­ly. The OKB ac­knowl­edges that the con­di­tions at polling sta­tion 614 were sub­op­ti­mal and that this has led to un­der­stand­able frus­tra­tions. At the same time, we em­pha­sise that there are no in­di­ca­tions that there has been de­lib­er­ate ma­nip­u­la­tion or fraud.,” the OKB said in a state­ment.