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Hakeem Touray to march with UDP for electoral transparency

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Hakeem Touray, coordinator of Gambians Against Looted Assets, says he will join UDP demonstrations calling for the publication of raw electoral data. He nevertheless maintains his organisation’s political neutrality ahead of the December presidential election, according to his statements to Kerr Fatou.

Hakeem Touray, national coordinator of Gambians Against Looted Assets (GALA), announced that he would personally take part in any demonstration organised by the United Democratic Party (UDP) to demand greater transparency from Gambia’s Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), Kerr Fatou reports. In particular, he supports publishing the raw data from the electoral register.

Hakeem Touray nevertheless maintained that GALA would remain politically non-partisan. He presented electoral transparency as a national issue transcending political affiliations during the current affairs programme The Grand Bantaba, according to Kerr Fatou.

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