Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Carrington says AFC voting system manipulated in favour of Ramjattan.


ASPIRING presidential candidate of the Alliance for Change (AFC) Michael Carrington is questioning the democratic process within his party, saying the open vote system puts candidates at a disadvantage.
Carrington, who fared modestly in the Sunday’s AFC internal election to determine the presidential candidate, told members of the media he would have fared better had there been a secret ballot. He said that the open ballot system was intimidating and hurt his chances since persons whom he knows would have supported him have given their vote to another for fear of being identified with a particular candidate.

“I had requested secret ballot,” he said. “A secret ballot was prepared and everything, but then we ran into a problem when some of the members feel we should have a show of hands.
“ If you have showing of hands what it does basically is eliminate those people who wanted to vote the other way. Most members do not want to offend leaders. So basically what they would do is withhold and they will vote the other side because of showing of hands,” he said.

6 comments:

  1. trotman aint fair at all..why would anyone want to be apart of that one-sided party and ya can't even get a fair chance of becoming presidential candidate. the decision has to be approved by one individual even though it mite be in favour of the majority. poor leadership skills is shown here..

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  2. He has a point cause there could have been a more chance of him winning but people are afraid of show that they prefer someone else so they just go with the flow.......

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  3. Well look at that people afraid to vote for someone else cause they might get cuss if they didn't vote for the most favor person it is clear that within the AFC you don't have a free choice of who you want to be elected.

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  4. No wonder this small party got all this fight within it cause they cant even have a proper voting system.....

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  5. This is unfair to this man cause he have called for secret ballot which give every1 the chance to have their own say with when it comes to show of man people have a different view.....

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  6. trotman get the unexpected when he was voted out and with this act of mutiny he refuse to be lead by ramajatan so he has refuse to be prime ministerial for the afc.

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