UDP leader has reacted to President Adama Barrow’s declaration his government is determined to have general elections held in 2021, as scheduled saying: ‘We don’t expect him to say anything other than that’.
President Barrow had on Thursday assured that his government would ensure elections are held despite the coronavirus crisis insisting, “my conviction is that, whatever our position or belief may be, we should always concede to the national interest, and forego selfishness”.
UDP leader Ousainou Darboe reacting to the president’s declaration said: “We do not expect him to say anything other than that. After all in 1982, elections were held in this country under a state of public emergency, although the state of emergency may be different but there was a state of public emergency which had affected freedom of assembly and so forth. We didn’t expect anything different.”
The UDP leader also reviewed the president’s SONA address saying: “It appears to be more of a speech or deliberations on the COVID-19. I think that is all. The whole speech is about that. It’s a sermon on coronavirus.
“The speech is not different from the previous ones and I’m sure when you look at the last budget, you see that it’s not very different from it and I’m sure in December when the minister presents his budget, it’s not going to be very different from this.”
