At a press conference held at Tamala Beach Resort, the leadership of Team Gambia Grand Coalition 2026 spelt out the mission, vision and promises of the Coalition.
VISION
A peaceful, sovereign and prosperous Gambia is in view where power owned, freely and fairly entrusted by fifty plus one percent of the voters to public trustees, would enable them to exercise legitimate authority to harness and utilise the wealth of the country for the upliftment of all Gambians above the poverty line within five years of a coalition administration.
MISSION
Answering to the call of duty, we vow to put all differences aside and, in the supreme interest of The Gambia and the people, mobilize a team of Gambians who truly love and are faithful to their country and people, to build a grand coalition with a sense of mission to take back the power and wealth of The Gambia, through the ballot box, from those who have centralized them in the hands of leaders for sixty one years, and hand them back to the people, who are the true owners of power and national wealth. In short, we consider ourselves bound to the mission to ensure and assure that future leaders would never again serve more than two-five-year terms, and an economy is built to elevate every Gambian above the poverty line within five years.
OUR PROMISES:
a) give the Gambia a new constitution within 18 months in office;
a) entrench a two five-year term limit for the Presidency;
b) ensure fifty plus one (50+1) percent absolute majority to be declared winner in presidential elections;
c) reserve one third (1/3) cabinet posts and seats in National Assembly and Councils for women through women alone (separate) elections;
d) eradicate all restrictions to civil servant participation and holding of office in political organization’s;
e) ensure mandatory registration of diaspora Gambians to be enfranchised and hold public office without any discrimination, as long as they affirm, or swear to an oath of allegiance to the Republic;
f) put an end to self-perpetuating rule by bringing a president to office who shall be committed to serving only one term, and not seek office, or take sides in the next following presidential elections, to create a level ground for multi-party contest in The Gambia for the first time since 1965;
g) audit and safeguard the sovereign assets of the country and elevate all Gambians above the poverty line;
h) ensure investments in the productive base of the public, private, joint public-private, cooperative and the informal small and medium-size sectors, in furtherance of poverty eradication policies before the end of the five-year term of the Coalition administration;
i) commission establishment of an expert bank to put the vision, mission and promises into a grand coalition manifesto to give Gambia back to the people, by ensuring and upholding the protection of our sovereignty, peace, prosperity and right to determine how we govern ourselves through leaders, on our behalf and in our interest and not allow them to govern us against our will and in their interest;
j) hold a grand tour of the presidential aspirants from October 22 to October 28 to promote and build a mass movement in support of handing Gambia back to her people and give the country a new start with clean hands.
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