UDP has built a reputation for complaining about the many abhorrent deeds of the APRC government rather than trying to be proactive in dealing with the many challenges it faces as the largest opposition party in the country. In the Nov 19 edition of the Observer, it was reported that the UDP propaganda secretary condemned the IEC for masterminding the Jammeh victory last month, and called for the resignation of the chairman of the commission, Mr. Roberts. This may all be okay for a relatively young opposition party, even after the party leader had conceded defeat and congratulated the victor, now suspected to be a thief by another key party functionary. The party's conflicting reactions to the October election reflect some serious weaknesses about this party's leadership. Where were they when the IEC was registering people and adding their names to the Register after the official registration period (all of which they knew about before hand)? Where were the party's pooling agents when people with voters cards not entered in the main voter register appeared at their stations to vote? On the latter, all we know was that the agents sanctioned the results in their respective locations. In fact it was reported that UDP had no agent in one of the Serre Kunda constituencies (very bizarre!) . UDP/coalition as a party should have decided to either accept or reject the election the results. Doing both at the same time is comical at best. The coming Parliamentsry elections would be another test case for the leading opposition party that seems to be good at complaining about electoral atrocities after the fact rather than being steadfast in a proactive manner. AT _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp <<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>> To view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] <<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>