Granger needs no CARICOM report to give concession of defeat

Dear Editor,
After stealing an entire year of the life of the country by delaying elections to March 2020, Mr. David Granger now tells voters in his recent address, “I encourage everyone to await the completion of…the reports of the…CARICOM observers…”
A man who complains of “character assassination” but embellishes in what may be called “constitution assassination,” the true motif of the Coalition tenure in office. His heightened embrace of CARICOM as a most “legitimate interlocutor” on the elections is a ploy to stall a formal concession of electoral loss.
He ought to be cognisant of CARICOM’s statements on the record and their subsequent witness to the bona fides of the recount. Said another way, CARICOM’s report cannot now be dispositive.
Moreover, Mr. Granger has more than what he needs to concede defeat and end having the security of the republic in a vulnerable state. He needs no CARICOM report to do that. In contrast, he has already shown, in December 2018, that he was terrified by that profound word “defeat,” as it appeared in Article 6.
A CARICOM report which is likely to include that very word, or shades of its usual incandescent terror, is therefore a waste of time, which is always of the essence following a “defeat” of government pursuant to a (no) confidence vote.
Emphasis on this report is reason to see that CARICOM is being used as a means to an end, with the report itself likely to be rejected by Congress Place.
Further, this talk of CARICOM being a most “legitimate interlocutor” of the elections is arguably an inverse use of the phrase borrowed by Mr. Granger to create space from which he may try to impress upon the transformational leadership of that regional body’s current Chair to provide for another Mustique.
To this extent, CARICOM is being used as PNC propaganda to help distract from, and stall, Mr. Granger’s concession of defeat, just as Mr. Granger invented “GECOM’s readiness” to distract from calling a timely election pursuant to Article 106 (7).
Every time Mr. Granger tells people to wait, they fall quickly in line, regardless of what the Constitution says. Now, as Guyana waits again, Mr. Granger is busy making his preparation to set the elections aside based on unfounded claims of “massive” irregularities, including at least 41 dead souls who, with all fingers intact, rose up Lazarus-like and voted.
Electors should not be misguided; they should instead celebrate their right to prepare for a declaration and a lawful transition from a de facto to an elected Government. It is theirs to enjoy; this is part of their voting rights.

Nothing here is a gift from Mr. Granger.
Sincerely,
Rakesh Rampertab