The Collaborating Political Parties (CPP), established through consensus by four political parties: Unity Party (UP), Liberty Party (LP), Alternative National Congress (ANC) and All Liberian Party (ALP), has ended its political sojourn and its title of being the formidable force to contest against President George M. Weah’s Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) come 2023 general and presidential elections.
The ALP, headed by Benoni Urey, was the first to exit the collaboration, followed by the UP, headed by Ambassador Joseph N. Boakai. Yesterday, March 21, 2022, a segment of the LP, headed by Senator Nyonblee Karnga-Lawrence, announced its withdrawal, leaving the collaboration one-footed: the ANC.
The Karnga-Lawrence’s LP, in a press statement yesterday, announced that they were exiting the CPP based on a resolution of the party at its Buchanan sitting recently.
Reading the statement, the “Secretary General” of the party, Jacob Smith, said the decision was approved during the party’s Buchanan sitting, and the resolution was signed by him as Secretary General, approved by the party’s “Chairman”, Steve Zargo, and approved by the Political Leader, Senator Nyonblee Karnga-Lawrence.
Now that the CPP is left with only the ANC and the Musa Bility segment of the LP, observers are wondering whether Alexander Cummings intends to uphold the CPP’s name and recruit other parties to the collaboration, or go its way as ANC.
