Sierra Leone People's Party

Sierra Leone People's Party
Party leader	Solomon Berewa
Secretary General	Jacob Jusu Saffa
Deputy Chairman	Alhaji US Jah
founding	1951
Place of foundation	Freetown
Headquarters	Freetown
Colours)	bright green
Number of members	13 national party offices, 4 international party offices
Website	www.slpponline.com

The Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) is a social democratic party ( center-left ) and, alongside the All People's Congress, one of the two major parties in Sierra Leone .

history

Founded in 1951 as a merger of the People's Party (PP), Protectorate Education Progressive Union (PEPU) and Sierra Leone Organization Society (SOS), it is the country's oldest party still in existence today. So far, numerous governments and heads of state have been appointed. It lost its dominant position to the All People's Congress in 1968. All members of parliament had to join the APC in 1978 because it was the only party admitted to a one-party system.

In 1996 the SLPP surprisingly won the elections with its presidential candidate Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and was able to extend this success in 2002 with 69.9% of the votes and 83 of 112 seats won. Kabbah won 70.1% of the vote and was confirmed in office.

In August 2007, the party suffered an unexpectedly high defeat in the parliamentary and presidential elections. She only won 43 of the 112 seats and Vice President Solomon Berewa only won 38.3% of the votes as a presidential candidate. He failed in the runoff election for president with 38.28% of the vote.

In the 2012 presidential election, the SLPP's candidate, Julius Maada Bio , lost 37.4% to 58.7% to the incumbent President Ernest Koroma .

In 2018, the SLPP and its candidate Julius Maada Bio won the presidential election with 51.8%. In the general election it reached 48 seats, making it the second strongest force after the APC.

On May 31, 2019, the Supreme Court in Sierra Leone declared the election of 10 APC members to be invalid and accused them of, among other things, election manipulation. The corresponding parliamentary seats were then, according to the law, assigned to the runner-up. Nine of these seats went to the SLPP, making it the strongest force in parliament with 58 seats.

Government holdings

Ruling party

• 1958-1967
• 1996-1997
• 1998-2007

Party of the President

• July 9, 1954 to April 30, 1964 ( Milton Augustus Margai )
• April 30, 1964 to March 17, 1967 ( Albert Michael Margai )
• March 29, 1996 to May 25, 1997 ( Ahmad Tejan Kabbah )
• March 10, 1998 to September 17, 2007 (Ahmad Tejan Kabbah)
• since April 4, 2018 ( Julius Maada Bio )

Web links

• Official website of the SLPP (English)
• News portal of the SLPP (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Salzburger Nachrichten: Koroma re-elected as President of Sierra Leone. Retrieved June 17, 2019 . 
2. ^ Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com): Julius Maada Bio is the new President in Sierra Leone | DW | 04/04/2018. Accessed June 17, 2019 (German). 
3. ^ National Electoral Commission Sierra Leone: March 7, 2018, Parliamentary Elections. March 7, 2018, accessed June 17, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Posted on: Sierra Leone's main opposition party loses 10 parliamentary seats to petition. May 31, 2019, accessed June 17, 2019 .