– hails it most free and fair elections
Guyana’s Ambassador to Belgium, His Excellency Sasenarine Singh, has added his voice to the national conversation about the conduct of this year’s elections, penning a letter that hails the 2025 General and Regional Elections as the most transparent and credible in the country’s history.
In the letter published in Guyana Chronicle, Ambassador Singh congratulated the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) for “fulfilling its constitutional duty under the Laws of Guyana and successfully concluding the 2025 elections.” He praised the speed and openness of the process, noting that, for the first time, citizens had access to results ahead of political headquarters and that many analysts were able to form conclusive positions on election night from Statements of Poll.
“For the first time in the history of Guyana, the electorate and citizens had access to the results before the political headquarters,” Singh said, adding, “Many of us in the analyst community had enough evidence to arrive at a conclusive position sourced from these Statements of Poll as early as 23:00hrs on elections night.”
Singh’s endorsement arrives against a backdrop of official releases from GECOM that show declared results across all ten electoral districts, a process the government’s information body and other independent outlets said produced a clear lead for the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C).
Praise was also given to polling staff, party agents and GECOM officials by international bodies such as The Carter Center, which said these E. Day workers carried out their duties with integrity and that the overall environment was peaceful, a finding that bolsters claims of a credible process.
In his letter, Ambassador Singh opined that the result is a decisive popular endorsement for the PPP/C and President Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali. The president was sworn in for a second term on September 7, following the certification of these credible results, and used his inaugural address to call for unity and national development.
Singh warned political actors who sought to obstruct or discredit the release of final results that such tactics were closely observed by the electorate, “especially the youth”.
He also singled out a new generation of voters, saying citizens aged 18–35 turned out in record numbers and rejected appeals to identity politics in favour of issue-driven choices.
“This group, between 18 and 35 years old, decisively rejected all appeals to ethnicity and identity politics during the 2025 elections, signalling that the era of mobilisation through “kith and kin” is over.”
On a sharper note, the Ambassador chastised opponents who he said delayed the final aggregation of results and urged them to “grow up.” His closing message was a blunt call to nation-building: put aside division, approach the future with humility, and join hands to develop the country.
“It is now time for all of us — whether victors or not — to put aside division, grow up, and approach the future with humility. It is time to join hands in the patriotic task of building our nation from a policy front.”
