Ousainou Darboe
Ousainou Darboe (born the August 8th 1948) is a politician and lawyer, defender of the Human rights Gambia N. He is the chief of the greatest party of the opposition of his country, the United Democratic Party (UDP).
Darboe was presented to the presidential election for the first time in September 1996. It was presented as a candidate of its party, the UDP, then lately creates, and was in second place, behind Yahya Jammeh (which reached the capacity by a coup d'etat on July 23rd, 1994) of the patriotic Alliance for the reorientation and construction (APRC). It gained 35,84 % of the votes and Jammeh 55,77 %. The result of the poll was declared doubtful by the national mediums and international.
Its second attempt to reach the presidency came in October 2001. It was presented as a chief of a coalition of three parties: the UDP, the Left progressist the people ( People' S Progressive Party , or PPP) and the Left the Gambian people ( Gambian People' S Party , GPP). Of the five candidates to the presidency, it was second (with 32,59 % of the votes), according to the winner, Jammeh. With difference of the other election, the majority of the observers found the course and the result of the vote correct.
In 2005, the UDP was combined with four other parties of the opposition to form the National alliance for the democracy and the development ( National Alliance for Democracy and Development , NADD), in order to prepare the presidential election of at the end of 2006 and the legislative ones of at the beginning of 2007. However, alliance disintegrated after the withdrawals of the UDP and the Parti for the national reconciliation ( National Reconciliation Party , NRP).
At the time of presidential of the September 22nd 2006, the UDP of Darboe had formed another coalition with the NRP and the Gambian Parti for the democracy and progress ( Gambia Party for Democracy and Progress , GPDP), under the name of Alliance for Regime Changes . Jammeh gained the poll with 67,33 % of the vote, follow-up of Darboe with 26,69 %. A third candidate representing the remaining parties of the old alliance, Halifa Salah, obtained 5,98 % of the votes.
Darboe rejected the result of the election, informant who it was neither free nor just and whom there was intimidation of the voting ones.