Demerara_Guy posted:caribny posted:Well Burnham did NOT intend anyone to head GECOM unless it was someone who he approved of and he deliberately put in place mechanisms to ensure that if the opposition didn't submit someone to his liking that he would have an alternate!
Burnham has absolutely nothing to do with the formation of GECOM.
GECOM was established by an amendment to the constitution in 2000.
GUYANA ACT NO. 2 OF 1980 CONSTITUTION OF THE CO-OPERATIVE REPUBLIC OF GUYANA ACT 1980
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(1) There shall be an Elections Commission for Guyana consisting of a Chairman and such other members as may be appointed in accordance with the provisions of this article.
(2) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (6), the Chairman of the Elections Commission shall be appointed by the President from among persons who hold or have held office as a judge of a court having unlimited jurisdiction in civil and criminal matters in some part of the Commonwealth or a court having jurisdiction in appeals from any such court or who are qualified to be appointed as any such judge.
(3) In addition to the Chairman, there shall be one member of the Commission (hereinafter referred to as a "representative member") in respect of every list of candidates which at the election next preceding the appointment of such member obtained not less that five seats in the Assembly: Provided that no appointment shall be made under this paragraph during the period of three months immediately following the date of an election held pursuant to the provisions of article 61.
(4) For the purposes of the preceding paragraph a list shall be regarded as having obtained a seat in the Assembly if a seat has been located to that list or if a person identified with that list has been elected in an electoral area established under article 160 (2).
(5) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (6), a representative member of the Commission shall be appointed by the President, acting, in the case of a member to be appointed in respect of the list in which the mane of the President was included as a Presidential candidate, in his own deliberate judgment, and in the case of any other member, in accordance with the advice of the person who, under such provisions may be made under article 63, has power to identify persons to fill casual vacancies among the seats of members of the national Assembly from the list in respect of which the member is appointed or, if a majority of the members of the Assembly who belong to that list notify the President th at he should act in accordance with the advice of some other member of the assembly who belongs to that list, in accordance with the advice of that member: Provided that if occasion arises for making an appointment while Parliament stands dissolved this paragraph shall have effect as if Parliament had not been dissolved.
(6) A person shall be disqualified for appointment as a member of the Commission if he is a public officer of an alien.
What is the above ???