Liberia: UPP Announces Bid for 2017 - Stirs Up Stalwarts to Spread Political Nets

Monrovia — Though there may be nearly thirty registered political parties, and more to sprout before the 2017 elections, there are just a few of them that one cannot afford to delete in any meaningful narrative of the Liberian people's struggle for rights and rice. Others call them the dinosaurs of Liberian politics. Some call them the crème de la crème of the Liberian democratization process, though some of these have sold their birth rights for a few pieces of silver. Now comes one of them, the United People's Party, hatched and grown by the legendary Gabriel Baccus Matthews, who is fondly referred to as the Father of Multiparty Democracy in Liberia. Left with political locusts to eat the very fabric of this once democratic icon of the country, the UPP's remnants are mending old fire chunks hopefully to get some light, announcing a rebound to the stage. The Analyst reports.

The United People's Party has relocated its operation to its local office on 17th Street in Sinkor, Monrovia.

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