By: Spokesman Newsroom
BASSETERRE, St.Kitts-Nevis (Friday 10th July 2020) — SKNLP Chairman Dr. Terrance Drew is of the opinion that individuals will be shocked by evidence of alleged wrongdoing in the June 2020 general elections, with the first hearing of the six election petitions scheduled for Friday 10th July.
“People will be shocked when they understand what took place in the last elections. When people went in to vote and they saw a plastic bin that you can easily see through and recognise that their vote could not be secret, people were appalled. When people saw boxes that could not be locked — when they know that in the General Elections Act the boxes have to be something that could be locked — and realised that all of these things were violated,” said Dr. Drew on the party-sponsored ‘Issues’ programme on Freedom FM.
“Is this the type of democracy that we must accept? Is this the type of election that we must accept? This has nothing to do with losing an election or being a sore loser. It has to do with the preservation of democracy. We have to draw standards as the type of people who can stand for elections, and we have to have standards when we conduct our elections and not violate all these acts and statutes that are in place in order to preserve the integrity of the vote and hence preserve our democracy,” he added.