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IEC Declear Jammeh The Winner Of 2006 Elections (The Gambia)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker Sep 26, 2006 11:32am |
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| News Date | Tuesday, September 26, 2006 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission , Alhaji Mustapha Carayol , has declared President Jammeh as the winner in Friday’s presidential polls. Mr. Jammeh got a total sum of 264 404 votes, while the opposition Alliance’s candidate, Lawyer Ousainou Darboe , got 104 808, and NADD’s Halifa Sallah pulled a total of 23 473 votes. Mr. Carayol, who declared the results at 17.000 hours on Saturday 23rd September, almost 22 hours after polls closed, said since the incumbent Yahya Jammeh has pulled 67.33% of the votes he was being declared the winner of the 2006 presidential elections.
Yesterday elections were the culmination of weeks of campaigning and years of preparations. The size of the Jammeh victory came as a surprise even to the ruling party’s leading supporters. In 2001 Jammeh won with a small majority of 52.3% of the votes cast. This year’s 67.33% came after a difficult five years which saw prices of basic goods almost triple, the dalasi diving down in a free fall and which saw the Jammeh regime caught red-handed in many corruption scandals. The period also saw numerous onslaughts against the praxis of good governance and respect for human rights.
The main alliance of opposition parties have done very badly, falling from 2001’s 37% to below 26% this time around. Mr. Darboe, the opposition Alliance’s presidential candidate, Lawyer Ousainou Darboe, is yet to make a public statement. |
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