Gambia’s Group of Six These half-dozen opposition parties refuse to participate in another sham election Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh wants the world to think he is a democrat. Two years after seizing power as a 29-year-old officer in a 1994 coup, he held elections. He won. Since then he has won three more: in 2001, 2006 and 2011, all widely criticised. But this democratic façade is crumbling. Six of the main opposition parties in Gambia have vowed to boycott the next presidential election, scheduled forNovember 2016, after the head of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) rejected their calls for electoral…
