The President Adama Barrow camp will attempt to appease the country by introducing new legislation to strengthen democracy, Satty Matty Jaw has said.
Members of the National Assembly among them those loyal to President Barrow voted down a bill on Tuesday that sought to replaced the 1997 constitution with a new one. The President Barrow loyalist MPs had advanced that the draft took way the president’s right to two terms if it becomes ratified by Gambians at a referendum.
Satty Matty Jaw who’s a political science lecturer at the University of The Gambia predicts President Barrow’s camp would not resort to other means to try to appease Gambians.
“They will now attempt to give Gambians term limit and majoritarian system because that will suit their interest by amending the 1997 constitution. Already many are suggesting that should be the next steps. In fact, there is an ongoing validation workshop reviewing the electoral act. Whether it will pass or fail in parliament is hard to tell. But the lines have been drawn…,” Jaw wrote on Wednesday.
