Pres­i­dent Ir­faan Ali Sun­day night an­nounced that Sep­tem­ber 1, 2025 is the date for the gen­er­al and re­gion­al elec­tions in Guyana.

Ad­dress­ing the 59th In­de­pen­dence Flag Rais­ing Cer­e­mo­ny in Berbice, he said he would soon is­sue the procla­ma­tion for the dis­so­lu­tion of Par­lia­ment.

Ali, who would be seek­ing re-elec­tion for a sec­ond and fi­nal term in keep­ing with Guyana’s Con­sti­tu­tion, would be lead­ing his Peo­ple’s Pro­gres­sive Par­ty Civic’s tick­et.

The Pres­i­dent’s an­nounce­ment comes as the Guyana Elec­tions Com­mis­sion (GECOM) con­tin­ues prepa­ra­tions.

“I wel­come Pres­i­dent Dr. Ir­faan Ali’s an­nounce­ment of Sep­tem­ber 1st, 2025 as the date for gen­er­al and re­gion­al Elec­tions. As the gen­er­al sec­re­tary of the Peo­ple’s Pro­gres­sive Par­ty (PPP), I am proud to say that we are ready to de­liv­er our mes­sage of con­tin­ued progress to the peo­ple of Guyana in the up­com­ing elec­tion cam­paign,”  said Vice Pres­i­dent Bhar­rat Jagdeo in a state­ment soon af­ter the an­nounce­ment.

“Since re­turn­ing to Of­fice in Au­gust 2020, our gov­ern­ment hit the ground run­ning, and we have not looked back,” Jagdero said, adding that the op­po­si­tion par­ties “in what­ev­er form they present them­selves to the elec­torate, have no track record to stand on, no record of de­liv­er­ing for the Guyanese peo­ple – and noth­ing cred­i­ble to of­fer the elec­torate."

“As such, Guyanese can ex­pect their char­ac­ter­is­tic cam­paign of lies, racism and di­vi­sion to con­tin­ue, along with the usu­al long list of un­re­al­is­tic, lofty, pop­ulist promis­es, which they have no in­ten­tion of ful­fill­ing,” he added.

The PPP will be com­ing up against the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Con­gress Re­form (PN­CR) and the Al­liance For Change (AFC) which are yet to de­cide whether they would form a coali­tion, the per­cent­age of po­si­tions to be shared and who would be their pres­i­den­tial can­di­date.

The PN­CR-led A Part­ner­ship for Na­tion­al Uni­ty (AP­NU) in­to their last gen­er­al elec­tion and the AFC are head­ing in­to the elec­tions with­out their wish for what they say should be a vot­ers list that is cleansed of the names of de­ceased per­sons and mi­grants.

They and their aligned GECOM Com­mis­sion­er Vin­cent Alexan­der have re­peat­ed­ly said that the list can fa­cil­i­tate mul­ti­ple vot­ing and vot­er im­per­son­ation.

But the PP­PC and GECOM have re­peat­ed­ly main­tained that there are suf­fi­cient safe­guards to pre­vent vot­er fraud.

GECOM Chair­man Claudette Singh had al­ready ruled out giv­ing in­to dig­i­talised bio­met­rics for vot­er reg­is­tra­tion un­til af­ter this year’s elec­tions.

She had al­so scut­tled op­po­si­tion hopes for ex­clu­sive dig­i­talised vot­er ver­i­fi­ca­tion on the grounds that that would be un­con­sti­tu­tion­al.

GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana, May 25, CMC –

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