Gambian People's Party
The Gambian People's Party (GPP) was a political party in the Gambia. It was founded by Assan Musa Camara in February 1986 and formally launched on 29 March 1986. GPP was a splinter group of the governing People's Progressive Party. The party got 15.5% of the votes in the 1987 parliamentary elections and 7.96% in the 1992 elections, but it never won a parliamentary seat.[1] Camara contested as the presidential candidate of the party in 1987, and got 29,428 votes (14%). In the 1992 presidential election, he got 8% of the votes.[2]
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The party was banned after the 1994 military coup, and its leading members barred from participating in politics.[1]
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- "Democracy in The Gambia by Carlene J Edie" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-09-27. Retrieved 2008-01-04.
- Elections in The Gambia
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