He Voting count in Guyana After this Monday’s elections, he pointed to the matches of the President irfaan Ali and of the entrepreneur Azurddin Mohamed as the most supported. Although the scrutiny of Monday’s general and regional elections began early today, Guyana’s electoral commission was not planned to officially announce the winner until September 4. However, a considerable number of electoral minutes are already publicly available and show a majority support for the ruling progressive party of the people/civic (ppp/c) we already invest in the nation (Win), recently created by the tycoon Mohamed.
“At the end of today, the trend will be clear and we will be able to advance together,” President Ali said in a message, so the parties are expected to announce preliminary results before. For its part, the Electoral Commission has promised to publish the results “as soon as possible” and has celebrated that the elections to elect president and members of the National Assembly were “peaceful.”
War tension in the Caribbean
The possible choice of Ali would envive the complex Caribbean situation and the relations between Venezuela and the US. Irfaan Ali expressed his support on the military deployment of the United States on the Caribbean, while the Caracas regime accused the Guyanese government of encouraging a “war front.” Ali’s support comes a day after his government denounced “shots” from Venezuela against a boat that transported material for the general elections on Monday. “We will support everything that eliminates any threat to our security, not only in terms of sovereignty (…) we must unite to combat transnational crime, to combat drug trafficking,” the president told the press after voting in the general elections of Guyana.
The rapid rise of Win
There are indications that the WIN, with three months of existence, has obtained a considerable number of votes in areas and regions that traditionally supported the PPP/C and the opposition Alliance for National Unit (APNU), which is glimpsed as the great loser of the appointment. “People decided to risk the unknown. This is an indication of people’s despair. They are fed up with the president in power and others,” political commentator Gabriel Lall told Efe.
Among the areas where Win achieved considerable penetration is Kako, a remote indigenous village in region 7, home of some 940 people. Only 153 valid votes were registered and Win obtained more than 90. For the tribal chief (Toshao) Romario Hastings, this is not surprising since Kako is “one of the communities that has not yet reaped the benefits of the wealth and resources of Guyana”, which lives an economic revolution since the commercial production of oil began in 2019. The community “tried” with the traditional parties, but ” disappointed, “he told Efe Hastings.
The ruling party is optimistic
Despite the boom of the WIN, the PPP/C considers that the trends indicate a favorable result for the party at the polls, according to its general secretary Bharrat Jagdeo. “We have a general panorama and, in my opinion, it is positive. The trend we observed now confirms what we knew before the elections,” Jagdeo told jaggde, who is also vice president of the country. According to Jagdeo’s data, a good number of traditional APNU followers bowed to the PPP/C or the WIN in these elections, in which electoral participation was less than in 2020.
For the Lall analyst, the possible low participation is a “modernized form of electoral rebellion.” In his opinion, the Guyanese compared the national record budgets presented by the Government and the multimillionaire infrastructure projects, with the high cost of the living they face. “The low electoral participation is one of the reactions. People say: ‘How can this country have the best statistics in the world and we have people hungry,” he said. Guyana achieved the record of growing 63% in 2022, thanks to the oil bonanza, and, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), an average of 14% annually will grow over the next five years.
