The David Granger led administration, through the Attorney General’s Chambers, is moving to the courts to ask for a stay in a decision by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to merge the data gathered from the recently concluded House-to-House Registration with the existing National Registrar of Registrants (NRR).
According to Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Basil Williams, his chambers will be filing the stay, by the latest Thursday.
“There could be no question of merging the current register with the new register. We will have to argue these things before the court of appeal. I have appealed that decision and we will file a stay of that decision.”
The Attorney General has already appealed the part of order handed down by the Chief Justice on August 14, which said GECOM should not remove the names of any person currently on the National Register of Registrants.
Two weeks ago, GECOM announced that in light of the ruling by the Chief Justice, a decision was made for the data garnered from that registration exercise to be merged with the existing National Register of Registrants Database (NRRDB).
It said, the commission would also move to an extensive Claims and Objections Exercise before extracting the Preliminary List of Electors.
