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The 2023 Guyanese local elections, officially due since 2020, were held on Monday, June 12, 2023, following the latest delay of the officially biennial polls by three years due to lawsuits and vacanies at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) following the fallout and misconduct of the 2020 Guyanese general election and the COVID-19 pandemic. [1]
t. e. General elections are constitutionally mandated to be held in Guyana by December 2025 to elect members of the National Assembly and the President of Guyana. The incumbent President is Mohamed Irfaan Ali, who was elected in the March 2020 elections. He is eligible to seek a second and final term, with the constitution limiting presidents ...
2023 Guyana–Venezuela crisis. Venezuelan referendum. v. t. e. A consultative referendum was initiated by the government of Nicolás Maduro regarding Venezuela 's claim over the Guayana Esequiba, whose territory is disputed with, and controlled by, neighboring Guyana. The referendum took place on 3 December 2023 in Venezuela. [1]
Snap general elections were held in Guyana on 2 March 2020. They were called early after the government of President David A. Granger lost a vote of no confidence by a margin of 33–32 on 21 December 2018, [2] the government having held a one-seat majority since the 2015 elections. However, one of its own MPs, Charrandas Persaud of the ...
The long-standing territorial dispute over the Essequibo region escalated into a crisis in 2023. The region is controlled by Guyana but is claimed by Venezuela. The dispute dates back many years and the current border was established by the Paris Arbitral Award in 1899. Venezuela renewed its claim in 1962 and the matter was referred to the ...
2023 Argentine general election, 22 October (first round) & 19 November (second round) 2023 Antiguan and Barbudan general election, 18 January. 2023 Cuban parliamentary election, 26 March. 2023 Paraguayan general election, 30 April. Canada. 2023 Prince Edward Island general election, 3 April [1] 2023 Alberta general election, 29 May.
e. Elections in Guyana take place within the framework of a multi-party representative democracy and a presidential system. The National Assembly is directly elected, with the nominee of the party or alliance that receives the most votes becoming President. [1]
Irfaan Ali. Mohamed Irfaan Ali (born 25 April 1980) [4] is a Guyanese politician serving as the tenth and current president of Guyana since 2020. A member of the People's Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), he previously served as the minister of Housing and Water from 2009 to 2015. He is the first Muslim to hold office, and is the third Muslim ...