{"id":2500,"date":"2025-09-10T17:02:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T17:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/lawyer-darboe-elected-flag-bearer-of-udp-as-he-won-with-a-landslide-at-the-primaries\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T17:02:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T17:02:22","slug":"lawyer-darboe-elected-flag-bearer-of-udp-as-he-won-with-a-landslide-at-the-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/lawyer-darboe-elected-flag-bearer-of-udp-as-he-won-with-a-landslide-at-the-primaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer Darboe elected flag bearer of UDP as he won with a landslide at the primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran politician and lawyer ANM Ousainou Darboe has been elected as the flagbearer of the United Democratic Party (UDP) for the 2026 presidential elections, following an intense internal selection process.<\/p>\n<p>Darboe secured the top spot ahead of his contenders, Lawyer Borry Touray and former Finance Minister Amadou Sanneh. Among the delegates who cast their votes, Darboe garnered 65 votes, while Touray received 8 votes and Sanneh obtained 2 votes.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the sixth time Darboe will lead the UDP into a presidential contest, a role he has assumed since the party\u2019s founding in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>With his victory, Darboe is set for a rematch against incumbent President Adama Barrow when Gambians head to the polls in December 2026. The two last faced off in the 2021 presidential election, where Barrow secured a second term in office.<\/p>\n<p>UDP officials hailed the outcome as a demonstration of the party\u2019s unity and democratic tradition, while supporters celebrated Darboe\u2019s continued leadership at a crucial political moment for the country.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"cwyagpWmg3\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kerrfatou.com\/darboe-elected-udp-flagbearer-for-2026-presidential-elections\/\">Darboe Elected UDP Flagbearer for 2026 Presidential Elections<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cDarboe Elected UDP Flagbearer for 2026 Presidential Elections\u201d \u2014 Kerr Fatou Online Media House\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kerrfatou.com\/darboe-elected-udp-flagbearer-for-2026-presidential-elections\/embed\/#?secret=ZqasvVdkrs#?secret=cwyagpWmg3\" data-secret=\"cwyagpWmg3\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran politician and lawyer ANM Ousainou Darboe has been elected as the flagbearer of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}