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OAS chooses Belizean to head Electoral Observer Mission to Guyana

By on April 8, 2015

Belize City, Belize. Wednesday, April 8, 2015. The Organization of American States will send an Electoral Observation Mission to Guyana for the upcoming General Elections next month.

Lisa Shoman

Lisa Shoman

Heading the mission will be Belizean Senator Lisa Shoman.

A press release from the OAS today announced that Secretary General José Miguel Insulza, and the Permanent Representative of Guyana to the Organization, Bayney Karran, “today signed the agreement by which the institution will send an Electoral Observation Mission to the general elections of May 11 in the Caribbean country.”

According to the OAS press release, Secretary General Insulza is hopeful that the March 11 general elections in Guyana “will be a very good moment for Guyanese democracy,” and his conviction that, “as always, the government of Guyana will give the Mission all the facilities they need to do their job well.”

Ambassador Karran highlighted “the role that the OAS plays in strengthening democracy in the Hemisphere because democracy and good governance are fundamental to the development agenda, to human rights, to security and to so many other important areas of work.”

OAS observer mission going to Guyana

OAS observer mission going to Guyana

In addition, he called the Observation Missions of the OAS “one of the areas of greatest success” of the Organization.

Previously, the OAS has observed general elections in Guyana dating back to 1997.

Next month’s poll will elect a president, 65 representatives for the National Assembly as well as members of the ten regional democratic councils.

Chief of Mission Lisa Shoman and her team will be deployed to Guyana one week ahead of the general elections and ambassador Karran says that the May 11 poll “is going to be a very pivotal election in Guyana, and will have far reaching consequences for the governance of the country irrespective of the result.”

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