IS THE UNDBELIEVABLE HAPPENING? SIGNING CEREMONY OF MOU OF UNITED
FRONT OF OPPOSITION PARTIES
Author: Publisher | Date: 28-10-11 | Topic: Editorial

Foroyaa has received an invitation to send a reporter to cover the
signing ceremony of the memorandum of understanding establishing a
United Front of opposition parties to be held at the Atlantic Hotel in
Banjul on Saturday 29th October 2011.
This letter therefore confirms that those parties which support a
convention have finally reached an agreement.
What the Memorandum of Understanding contains will be known by our
readers next Monday. Foroyaa will serialize it for the benefit of our
readers.
The 2011 election is beginning to come with its surprises. First the
opposition was conceived to be dead. The APRC utilised the provincial
tour of the President as an election campaign which was broadcast both
by Radio and television for weeks. They made sure that each week came
with its own activity. There was no sign of the opposition on state
radio and television until the IEC arranged for a TV programme to
sensitise the public on multiple registration and the need for those
who did so to return their cards.
It was in September that rumours began to spread that opposition
parties were meeting to discuss about the formation of an alliance.
The women groups of the different opposition parties formed a main
pressure group to visit party executive Committee members especially
the Secretary General of parties to promote the creation of a United
Front.
The talks ended on 14th October 2011 and most of the reports in the
media concluded that the talks initiated by the UDP had collapsed.
Others claim that the talks split into two camps, that is, the camp
that supports a UDP led alliance comprising the UDP and the PPP, and
the camp that supports the holding of a convention to select a flag
bearer, that is, GMC, GPDP, NADD, NRP and PDOIS. Recently questions
have been raised whether GMC is still a member. Some people have also
said that the NRP shall never be part of a convention.
On Saturday it will be clear who is or is not part of the United
Front. Apparently Gambia is poised to have the most unpredictable
election process that the country has ever held. No wonder foreign
observers have started to conduct their pre-election observations and
monitoring. The Common Wealth has done theirs. ECOWAS is on the way.
Each Gambian should now be ready to make his or her vote count.




This article comes from FOROYAA Online
http://www.foroyaa.gm

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-Laye
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"With fair speech thou might have thy will,
With it thou might thy self spoil."
--The R.M

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