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GPP To Be Registered After October Election

Information reaching the Point Newspaper has revealed that the unbanned
Gambian people's party (GPP) under the leadership of Hassan Musa Camara,
will not be registered until after the parliamentary and presidential
elections. This was confirmed to the Point by an official of the party after
he was contacted to shed light on the party's present status yesterday
morning. "GPP is not going to be registered until after the currently busy
coalition process." Other sources reaching the point say the GPP leadership
and its party supporters would join the opposition alliance which is about
to be introduced to fight the Jammeh administration in the coming elections.
However, no reason has been advanced for GPP's move in not registering their
party. BUT INFORMED SOURCES INTIMATED THAT ALL THE UNBANNED POLITICAL
PARTIES THE PPP, NCP, AND GPP ARE WITH THE VIEW THAT THERE IS URGENT NEED TO
FORM AN OPPOSITION FRONT TO "FLUSH-OUT" THE RULING APRC PARTY(emphasis mine)

In a separate development, The Point yesterday, contacted Tamsir Jallow, the
majority leader in the National Assembly for his comment and he said that
the APRC is not afraid of any opposition alliance " No, I don't think Pa
Nderry that should be a threat. That is not a threat. The results of the
last elections have given us a very comfortable majority both at the
national assembly and the presidency," said the majority leader. Mr. Jallow
who told The Point that the ruling APRC dominated the last elections with 56
percent of the votes for the President and 75 percent for the national
assembly added:" Uptill now, we have not lost our members to the opposition.
Infact, the opposition is losing members on daily bases. It is their members
that are registering with the APRC. The APRC cannot be threatened by the
opposition alliance."

Tamsir Jallow, who branded the unbanned political parties as spent forces,
intimated that they would disintegrate themselves before the elections. "I
am optimistic that the UDP will loose their members to other parties. I
don't have any fear," said the majority leader, while calling for peace and
stability in the coming elections. Reacting to reports of GPP's plans of
joining the opposition coalition Tamsir Jallow said, "They are already in
alliance when the UDP came into being, all those who do not come to support
the APRC went to the UDP.The UDP is made of NCP, GPP and PPP supporters. "
Pa Nderry, tell me what the PPP had done for this country? I don't think the
PDOIS would be part of any opposition alliance.They were strong critics of
the PPP. The PPP see the PDOIS as revolutionary. They will be strange odd
fellows. PDOIS have different ideology," Mr. Jallow told The Point. The
latest political development came in the wake of a move taken by President
Jammeh to lift decree 89, which banned all former politicians from
participating into politics. Those who defied the ban were liable to a fine
of D1million dalasis or life imprisonment.






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