Alexander Turns the Constitution on GECOM Chair, Demands Her Resignation

Opposition-nominated Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Commissioner Vincent Alexander has intensified his challenge to Chairperson, retired Justice Claudette Singh, arguing that if she relies on the Constitution to question the status of the existing Opposition-appointed commissioners, she must apply the same constitutional reasoning to her own appointment and resign.

In a letter to the editor published in Village Voice News on Thursday, November 12, Alexander responded to GECOM’s November 10 statement defending Singh’s position on the Commission’s composition and rejecting his description of the electoral body as “comatose”.

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Alexander made two principal arguments, both centred on the interpretation of the constitutional provisions governing appointments to the Commission and the authority of its Chairperson.