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blackerberry2004
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 Posted - 24 Aug 2006 : 00:16:05
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It is disheartening, to say the least, to see the opposition so fragmented. As a concerned Gambian, it is incumbent upon me to make this final appeal to NADD and UDP/NRP. Gambia, our beloved country, is weeping for her people to rescue her. She has given us so much and we need to rescue her from the strangling grip of President Yaya A.J.J. Jammeh.
A solution to this impasse is desirous and I am making a few suggestions which I believe would be amenable to all reasonable stakeholders. My starting premise is to put forward Mr. Ousainou Darboe as the flag bearer. However, this should be based on some agreed-upon conditions such as those that I am suggesting below. The parties making up the coalition need not be re-registered.
• Term Limit - This seems to be a very contentious issue. I suggest that the flag bearer, if elected, should stay in power for one five-year term. Upon six months before the end of the president’s term, there should be a nationwide referendum to allow the people to decide if they want the president to stand election for another five-year and final term. If the people reject this additional term, then the president should step down and neither seek re-election nor endorse anyone’s candidature. Upon the people’s approval, then the president can run for his final five-year term.
• Parliamentary Elections - All parties, including the APRC, can participate in parliamentary elections under their own party ticket 30 days after the president-elect assumes the presidency. The parliament should be mandated to set up technical committees made up of non-parliamentarians to overhaul the constitution, and revive the judiciary and other vital institutions. The quick turn around for the parliamentary elections would help to limit the president’s consolidation of power.
• Executive Committee – There should be an executive committee of 12 people set up where each of the five parties (PPP, UDP, NRP, NDAM and PDOIS) would nominate two members, and the president can nominate two additional members (in addition to his party’s two nominations). This Executive Committee would be charged with identifying and selecting the technical committees’ members, confirming/rejecting the president’s nominees for cabinet posts (excluding the vice president) and working closely with the president-elect and the parliament. This Executive Committee’s decisions should be based on a majority of at least 7 votes. The president-elect can have a veto power of all decisions made by the Executive Committee, unless the vote is at least 8 of 12 or two-thirds of the votes cast by this committee.
These suggestions are in no way an exhaustive list of conditions, and can certainly be refined. However, the points noted here seem to be the most contentious issues that led to the demise (or soon-to be demise, for hopeful souls like me) of the opposition coalition. Please, for those who have contacts to these leaders, get them back to the negotiating table. We have few days! God Bless Gambia and all her people!!
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kondorong
Gambia
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Posted - 24 Aug 2006 : 00:35:43
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Bro i like your spirits. You never give up which is very rare. The unfortunate thing is that the parties did not realise that negotion means giving and taking. No one group should impose his will on the other but it also requires compromise. That is why it is called an aliance. They all have a common objective but different strategies.
Nominations close in five days. Unless we have magic water from Kanilai, its a done deal. We just need to accept our failure and move on. Certainly not this time around. I will bet my long bear that after the elections, what is now left of NADD will break away. NADD will no more be PDOIS in disguise. NDAM,PPP,etc will not be there come 2011.
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