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Political Parties In Liberia
This article lists political parties in Liberia. Liberia has a multi-party system with numerous political parties, in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments. Membership in parties tends to be fluid, as the party leader at the time holds significant influence over the ideology the party follows. As such, switching parties is more common than in other countries. Represented parties Unrepresented parties * All Liberia Coalition Party * Grassroots Development Movement * Liberia National Union * Liberia Transformation Party * Liberian People's Party * Rainbow Alliance **Democratic Justice Party **True Whig Party ** Victory for Change * Union of Liberian Democrats Historical parties * Free Democratic Party *Freedom Alliance Party of Liberia * Labor Party of Liberia * Liberia Destiny Party * Liberia Education and Development Party * Liberia Equal Rights Party * Liberia Unification Party *Liberia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberia
Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to Liberia–Sierra Leone border, its northwest, Guinea to Guinea–Liberia border, its north, Ivory Coast to Ivory Coast–Liberia border, its east, and the Atlantic Ocean to its south and southwest. It has a population of around 5.5million and covers an area of . The official language is English. Languages of Liberia, Over 20 indigenous languages are spoken, reflecting the country's ethnic and cultural diversity. The capital and largest List of cities in Liberia, city is Monrovia. Liberia began in the early 19th century as a project of the American Colonization Society (ACS), which believed that black people would face better chances for freedom and prosperity in Africa than in the United States. Between 1822 and the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, more than 15,000 freed and free-born African Americans, along with 3,198 Afro-Caribbeans, relocated to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberty Party (Liberia)
The Liberty Party (LP) is a political party in Liberia. It first fielded candidates in the Liberian elections, 2005, 2005 elections. Its candidate Charles Brumskine placed third in the presidential poll, winning 13.9% of the vote. The party won of the half up for election seats in the Senate of Liberia, Senate and nine in the House of Representatives of Liberia, House of Representatives. In October 2010, the party was set for a coalition with the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), the largest party in the Legislature of Liberia, Legislature. The deal would have seen the two field a single list of candidates and presidential candidate in the next year's elections; a shared leadership of Brumskine and the CDC's standard-bearer, George Weah. This deal fell apart, and party accordingly announced in February 2011 its senator Franklin Siakor had been chosen as Brumskine's running mate for the election. The 2014 senate elections saw the party take second (or third if including the i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grassroots Development Movement
The Grassroots Development Movement (GDM) is a political party in Liberia. The GDM was certified by the National Elections Commission in May 2023. The party ran in the 2023 Liberian elections and won no seats in the Senate or House of Representatives and received 2.2% of the vote in the presidential elections. After being defeated in the first round of elections, the party's presidential candidate Edward W. Appleton endorsed the Unity Party candidate Joseph Boakai. Controversies In voting precinct code 304005 the GDM was marked as the party for both Edward W. Appleton and VOLT The volt (symbol: V) is the unit of electric potential, Voltage#Galvani potential vs. electrochemical potential, electric potential difference (voltage), and electromotive force in the International System of Units, International System of Uni ... candidate Jeremiah Whapoe on presidential record of count sheets. References {{Liberian political parties Political parties in Liberia 2023 establi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Liberia Coalition Party
The All Liberia Coalition Party (ALCOP) is a political party in Liberia. In the last elections held on 19 July 1997, the ALCOP presidential candidate Alhaji G.V. Kromah won 4.02% of the vote. The party won 3 of 64 seats in the House of Representatives and 2 of 26 in the Senate. While international observers deemed the polls administratively free and transparent, they noted that it had taken place in an atmosphere of intimidation because most voters believed that former rebel leader and National Patriotic Party (NPP) candidate Charles Taylor would return to war if defeated. Kromah ran again as the party's presidential candidate in the 11 October 2005 elections. He won 2.8% of the vote. The party won one seat in the Senate and two in the House of Representatives House of Representatives is the name of legislative bodies in many countries and sub-national entities. In many countries, the House of Representatives is the lower house of a bicameral legislature, with the corr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vision For Liberia Transformation
The Vision for Liberia Transformation (VOLT) is a political party in Liberia. History VOLT was certified by the National Elections Commission (NEC) in May 2016. Dr. Jeremiah Z. Whapoe was the party's first presidential candidate. Whapoe is a social entrepreneur and a nephew of notable 20th-century Liberian politician Jackson Doe. Rodney Sieh of ''FrontPage Africa'' wrote that Whapoe "prioritized agriculture on the campaign trail". On July 11, 2017, Whapoe announced that VOLT had selected former assistant agriculture minister Isaac Flowers of Bomi County as the party's running mate. In the 2017 presidential election, Whapoe received 3,946 votes, 0.3% of the total vote. In the subsequent run-off election, Whapoe supported Unity Party (UP) candidate Joseph Boakai. In the 2017 House of Representatives election, VOLT ran 25 candidates. None won election. On August 31, 2020, the NEC certified the Rainbow Alliance (RA). The political alliance initially contained VOLT, along with si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Democratic Coalition (Liberia)
The National Democratic Coalition (NDC) is a coalition of Liberian political parties formed in 2011 to contest the 2011 presidential and legislative elections. The original members of the coalition were the New Deal Movement (NDM), the National Patriotic Party (NPP), the National Democratic Party of Liberia (NDPL), the Liberian People's Party (LPP), the United People's Party (UPP), the Liberia Equal Rights Party (LERP), the Labor Party of Liberia (LPL). the Free Democratic Party (FDP), the Majority Party of Liberia (MAPOL) and the National Democratic Movement for Industrial Change (NADMIC). On 12 February 2011, New Deal nominated Dew Mayson, a former Liberian ambassador and university professor, as its standard bearer, and NDC had been expected to nominate Mayson as its presidential candidate. However, New Deal suspended Mayson as its standard bearer on 6 July 2011 following for unspecified reasons, only to later reinstate him in less than a week later. Mayson later told ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Movement For Progressive Change
The Movement for Progressive Change (MPC) is a political party in Liberia. History The MPC contested the 2011 presidential election. Their nominee was Simeon C. M. Freeman, alongside running mate Cyrus Cromah. After a failed referendum in August to shorten the residency requirements for presidential candidates, the MPC filed a legal challenge against six other presidential candidates, including incumbent president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, on grounds they were ineligible to run due to failing to meet the unchanged residency requirements. The case was dismissed by the Supreme Court of Liberia on October 5. Freeman received 5,559 votes, 0.5% of the total. In the legislature, the MPC won no seats in the Senate, but two in the House of Representatives. Numene T. H. Bartekwa was elected in the Grand Kru County #2 District and Alex Chersia Grant won in the Grand Gedeh County #3 District. The MPC again unsuccessfully contested the Senate in the 2014 election. In the 2015 by-election in R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberia National Union
The Liberia National Union (LINU) is a political party in Liberia. It was formed by Dr. Harry Moniba, who served as Vice President of Liberia from 1984 to 1990. Moniba also helped to create the multi-party election system that the country currently uses. He served as LINU's first standard bearer as well. It participated in the 11 October 2005 elections as part of the three-party United Democratic Alliance (UDA) coalition. Dr. Clarence K. Moniba, the leader of the Liberian National Union (LINU), announced on Thursday, January 19, 2023 at 5 AM his intention to run for the presidency in the 2023 elections An election is a formal group decision-making process whereby a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated .... References Political parties in Liberia {{Liberia-party-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberia Restoration Party
The Liberia Restoration Party (LRP) is a political party in Liberia. History The LRP was certified by the National Elections Commission on June 26, 2017. It is an off-shoot of Liberia Restoration to Christian Heritage, an organization centered around making Liberia into a Christian state. MacDella Cooper was the first standard bearer of the party, and the first presidential candidate. She was the only female presidential candidate in the 2017 election. Her running mate was William R. Slocum. Cooper supported Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) candidate George Weah in the subsequent run-off election. The LRP ran 37 candidates in the 2017 House of Representatives election, 11 of them being women. The party won no seats in the legislature. The LRP won no seats in the 2020 Senate election. In a 2021 by-election for the Grand Gedeh County #1 District seat, LRP candidate Erol Madison Gwion Sr. defeated ruling party CDC candidate Jeremiah Garwo Sokan. In March 2023, the LRP co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benoni Urey
Benoni Wilfred Urey (born 22 June 1957) is an Americo-Liberian businessman and politician, who was formerly the Liberian Commissioner of Maritime Affairs. In 2014 ''The Economist'' reported that Urey was Liberia's wealthiest man."'Goldfinger' and the presidency" ''The Economist'', January 18, 2014. Early life and career Urey was born on 22 June 1957 at his family home in Careysburg, Montserrado County,Liberia
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All Liberian Party
The All Liberian Party (ALP) is a political party in Liberia. History The ALP was certified by the National Elections Commission on August 7, 2015. Benoni Urey served as the first standard bearer of the party. Urey is a businessman who previously served as President Charles Taylor's head of Bureau of Maritime Affairs. At the time of the party's founding, he served as chair of LoneStar Communications Corporation, one of Liberia’s largest cell phone companies. In June 2016, Emmanuel Lomax, the first chairman of the ALP, resigned from the party. In November 2016, Bomi County Senator Sando D. Johnson, a founding member of the National Patriotic Party, joined the ALP. In August 2016, the ALP along with 11 other opposition political parties, signed a communique in Ganta to work together against the ruling Unity Party (UP) in the 2017 general election. Urey contested the 2017 presidential election for the ALP, with Alexander Nyonkon Duopu serving as his running mate. The ALP ticket ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Unification Party
The People's Unification Party (PUP), also known as the Native People's Party, is a political party in Liberia. History The PUP was established in 2014, with its founders including Margibi County Representative James Emmanuel Nuquay and Lofa County Senator Henry Yallah, and was joined by Senator Sumo Kupee after he was defeated in the Unity Party primaries. The PUP won a single seat in the December 2014 Senate elections, with Jim Tornonlah elected in Margibi County. Senator Kupee ran for re-election under the PUP banner, but was defeated by Liberty Party candidate Stephen J. H. Zargo. Another incumbent, Rivercess County Senator Jay Jonathan Banney who was elected in 2005 with the Unity Party, was defeated National Democratic Coalition candidate Francis Paye. From October 2016 to 15 January 2018, PUP member Rep. Nuquay served as speaker of the House of Representatives of Liberia. In the 2017 House of Representatives election, the PUP won five seats. Incumbent Haja F. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |