MONROVIA Sept.12 (LINA) – As political parties strategize for victory ahead of 2023 Presidential and General Elections, the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), National Patriotic Party (NPP), and Liberia People’s Democratic Party (LPDP) have reaffirmed their coalition to retain the presidency.
This comes in the wake of public speculations of internal squabbling within the coalition over who becomes standard bearer and vice standard bearer in the upcoming 2023 elections.
A resolution and reaffirmation by the CDC, NPP, and LPDP was signed over the weekend at the CDC party headquarters in Congo Town, and signed by the Chairmen and political leaders of the three political parties.
Pres. George M. Weah and CDC National Chairman, Mulbah Morlu signed on behalf of the CDC; political leader of the NPP, Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor and National Chairman Senator James Banny, signed for the NPP; and former House Speaker, Alex Tyler, the political leader of the LPDP, and its National Chairman, Moses Kollie, penned the document on behalf of the LPDP.
Titled: “Reaffirmation of Commitment to Work Together in The Ensuing 2023 Legislative and Presidential Elections,” the document stated that the parties diagnosed the awesome improvement and benefits of the CDC-led government, which stays dedicated to gratifying the solemn guarantees that inspired the existence of the coalition.
Also speaking at news conference, CDC National Chairman Morlu disclosed that members of the countrywide executive committees of the three political parties that form the Coalition for Democratic Change are expected to converge in Gbarnga, Bong County for a two-day retreat soon.
Chairman Morlu explained that the retreat is expected to talk about the method of petitioning of Pres.Weah to contest for the second time and to put together a number of committees of the coalition for the petitioning ceremony of President George Weah in December 2022.
In 2016, the Congress for Democratic Change, headed by George Manneh Weah, National Patriotic Party headed by Jewel Howard-Taylor and Liberia People’s Democratic party head by Alex J. Tyler, signed collaboration document to win the ruling Unity Party (UP) Government.
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