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Magisterial recount for Hanover Eastern to start tomorrow
KERIL WRIGHT, Observer West reporter
Thursday, September 20, 2007
LUCEA, Hanover
The magisterial recount which is expected to finally determine the winner of the Eastern Hanover parliamentary seat will begin on September 21 at the Lucea Resident Magistrate's Court.
Attorneys Abe Dabdoub, Nicole Allen and Clayton Morgan will defend the opposition People's National Party's (PNP) DK Duncan, who lost the battle for the seat to the ruling Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) Barrington Gray.
Attorneys Harold Brady and George Schroeter will represent Gray.
The petition for the closely contested seat, which on election night was announced as a win for Duncan then went to Gray after the final count, was filed on Monday by Duncan's attorneys.
"We are confident there is evidence in respect of the rejected and spoilt ballots and other ballots that Duncan should be able to pick up enough votes to guarantee him a victory," Morgan told the Observer West.
Gray, a Hanover businessman, who is returning to Parliament for the second time, has insisted that a recount will not change the result, while Duncan is confident that the recount will result in him obtaining the seat.
Eastern as well as Western Hanover, which went to the PNP's Ian Hayles and South St James, which was won by the PNP's Derrick Kellier, were closely contested seats in the west that had to be determined by a final count.
KERIL WRIGHT, Observer West reporter
Thursday, September 20, 2007
LUCEA, Hanover
The magisterial recount which is expected to finally determine the winner of the Eastern Hanover parliamentary seat will begin on September 21 at the Lucea Resident Magistrate's Court.
Attorneys Abe Dabdoub, Nicole Allen and Clayton Morgan will defend the opposition People's National Party's (PNP) DK Duncan, who lost the battle for the seat to the ruling Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) Barrington Gray.
Attorneys Harold Brady and George Schroeter will represent Gray.
The petition for the closely contested seat, which on election night was announced as a win for Duncan then went to Gray after the final count, was filed on Monday by Duncan's attorneys.
"We are confident there is evidence in respect of the rejected and spoilt ballots and other ballots that Duncan should be able to pick up enough votes to guarantee him a victory," Morgan told the Observer West.
Gray, a Hanover businessman, who is returning to Parliament for the second time, has insisted that a recount will not change the result, while Duncan is confident that the recount will result in him obtaining the seat.
Eastern as well as Western Hanover, which went to the PNP's Ian Hayles and South St James, which was won by the PNP's Derrick Kellier, were closely contested seats in the west that had to be determined by a final count.