The four parties include the Unity Party (UP), the All Liberian Party (ALP), the Liberty Party (LP) and the Alternative National Congress (ANC). This is indeed a welcome development but…! This development marks a very early start in what promises to be a challenging 2023 electoral period. It can be recalled that during the period leading to the 2017 elections, a number of political parties met in the northern Liberian city of Ganta and put pen to paper in similar fashion. He only stopped short of calling for the scrapping of the “trickle-down” theory whose tenets, according to him, have long since undergirded the pursuit of national economic development objectives.

Source: Daily Observer February 22, 2019 02:15 UTC