Unity Party (Liberia)
The Unity Party (abbreviation UP , German unit party ) is a political party in Liberia .
It was founded in 1984 by the late Dr. Edward B. Kesselly , who was also the first standard bearer, was founded and is currently the ruling party of the country.
The Unity Party took part in the first elections after the first coup in 1980, and ran against then-President Samuel Doe in October 1985. The party remained active in Liberian politics and is now the ruling party in the republic.
UP candidate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf won the presidential election in 2005 in which they George Weah of the Congress for Democratic Change defeated (CDC) in a second round of voting. The party won a total of three seats in the Senate and eight in the House of Representatives .
In the previous election, which was held on July 19, 1997, UP presidential candidate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf won 9.58% of the vote. The party won 7 out of 64 seats in the House of Representatives and 3 out of 30 in the Senate. While international observers viewed the polls as administratively free and transparent, they found that they took 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 warfare, if he were defeated.
On April 1, 2009, the Liberia Unification Party and the Liberian Action Party merged with the UP.
Individual evidence
- ^ Liberia - domestic politics. Federal Foreign Office, October 1, 2010, accessed on March 23, 2011 .
- ↑ http://www.theliberianjournal.com/index.php?st=news&sbst=details&rid=974&comesOfTheHome=1