Voters from the municipalities of Matoury and Rémire-Montjoly, two of the main towns in Guyana, appointed their mayors in the first round of municipal elections, postponed to October following the coronavirus pandemic.
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In Matoury, Guyana's third municipality (32,233 inhabitants), the various left-wing candidate and outgoing mayor Serge Smock, who notably had the support of La République en Marche (LREM) obtained 61.08% of the votes cast, ahead of the independent list led by Jean-Victor Castor, who reached 29.14% and the centrist list led by Jean-Marc Aimable, which does not exceed 10%.
Serge Smock was head of the list for the first time, after taking the head of the municipality after the election of former mayor Gabriel Serville to the National Assembly in 2017, forcing the latter to resign in order to avoid accumulation mandates.
In Rémire-Montjoly, the surprise came from the victory in the first round of centrist Claude Plenet, elected in opposition who obtained 56.74% of the vote, eliminating in the first round the outgoing mayor Jean Ganty, also centrist, who was trying to running for a third term but only won 30.26% of the vote.
Also elected in the first round, Jean-Claude Labrador, centrist, won 61.41% of the votes cast in Roura and thus succeeds the outgoing mayor, David Riché, who was declared ineligible for three years in early 2019 by the Constitutional Council, for not to have filed campaign accounts following the partial legislative elections of March 2018.
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Victory also for the outgoing mayor of the Amerindian town of Awala Yalimapo, Jean-Paul Ferreira, who won with 53% of the vote, while he had been put on an unfavorable waiver during the first round of March, whose results had been canceled.
First Amerindian woman elected mayor in Guyana in 2014, Cornélie Sellali Bois Blanc (Nuance) outgoing mayor of Iracoubo (140 km west of Cayenne) is on a very unfavorable waiver - as in last March - since she comes in third and last position at the end of the first round with only 22.26% of the vote against 34.28% and 43.46% respectively on the two opposing lists.
At the end of 2019, the Regional Chamber of Accounts had pinned its management, noting that the personnel costs in Iracoubo (1,819 inhabitants), had increased by nearly 65% between 2014 and 2019.