NADD's economic agenda shall be a very interesting read in anticipation of a party manifesto and some few necessary clarifications.  Honestly, both Halifa and Waa have been systematically evasive on the truth of the facts.  NADD was registered a political party and any other spinning of that fact into a "political entity" , "alliance" or "party of parties" is an absolute nebulous nonsense.  The IEC registers only political parties and nothing else.
This brings us to a more troubling fact/problem about NADD:  how can one pull off a merger of diverse political platforms of rival parties into an effective union in law ? PDOIS is socialist in outlook, and essentially all the rest of other parties claim to be "democratic".  In effect one can reasonably expect NADD's economic agenda to be social democratic, i.e  socialism and capitalism combined.  Such a syncretism engenders contradictions in practice:  Socialism is based on self-sacrifice, and Capitalism is fundamentally based on self-interest- it sounds like mixing oil with water.  The two are simply incompatible in a country with a weak economic base and low level of productivity such as the Gambia.

In any case, I would love to see what NADD is all about as a political party.


Ebou Jallow




africa fest <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

does any one know whether such info is available somewhere? or do we have to wait until after the 2006 elections and if they win then it will be presented?

latjor

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