Gambia: Was the IEC Consulted Before Chairpersonship Election Was Re-Introduced?

Three months before the holding of local government elections, the councils are dissolved and management committees appointed to run them. This law is definitely undemocratic and should have been reviewed.

It is worse than what it was in 1930 when the councils came into being. Since the government inherited this law. It should amend the Local Government Act by eliminating such a law so that elected councils, chairpersons and mayors/mayoresses would continue in office until the day when new councils, chairpersons and mayors/mayoresses are appointed to hold public office.

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