PNCR/APNU Calls 2020 Election Fraud Trial “Political Persecution”

The Opposition parties contend that the proceedings are being used not simply to prosecute alleged electoral offences, but to publicly stigmatise political opponents, punish those associated with the former APNU+AFC administration and silence dissent through what they describe as a campaign of politically motivated vengeance.

The coalition maintains that the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) administration benefited from unexamined irregularities in its own strongholds, demands an even-handed accounting of the 2020 poll that scrutinises every party’s conduct, and affirms that those accused remain entitled to the presumption of innocence.

Six years after Guyana’s most bitterly contested electoral exercise, the political temperature surrounding its legal aftermath shows no sign of cooling.