Sainey Touray (politician)

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Sainey Touray is a Gambian politician .

Life

Jarra East constituency
General election be right Voting share
2012 000000000002057.00000000002,057 46.18%
2017 000000000002171.00000000002,171 57.82%

Before Sainey Touray began his political career, he worked as a teacher.

In the 2012 parliamentary elections , he ran as an independent candidate in the Jarra East constituency in the Mansakonko Administrative Region . With 46.18% he could not win the constituency for himself, his rival candidate Bafaye Saidykhan (APRC) entered the National Assembly for this constituency.

Prior to the 2016 presidential election, Touray was part of the leadership of the 2016 Coalition , an opposition coalition that helped Adama Barrow to win the election . In the 2017 parliamentary elections , he ran as a candidate for the United Democratic Party (UDP) in the same constituency. With 57.82% he was able to win the constituency before Juldeh Baldeh (GDC) for himself. For the 2017-2022 legislative period, Touray will serve as chair of the National Assembly's Committee on Environment, Sustainable Development and NGO Affairs.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lamin Sainey: Meet Gambia's best dressed National Assembly Member. In: What's On Gambia. June 21, 2017, accessed September 30, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Our Team | Gambia Coalition 2016. In: thegambiacoalition.com. 2017, archived from the original on April 2, 2017 ; accessed on September 30, 2018 (English).
  3. ↑ Hon. Sainey Touray . ( Online ).
  4. ↑ Waste disposal worries select committee on environment - Gambia News Online. In: gambianewsonline.com. Retrieved August 20, 2018 (UK English).
personal data
SURNAME Touray, Sainey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gambian politician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century