Liberian Action Party
The Liberian Action Party was a political party in Liberia.
In the country's
1985 elections, LAP candidate Jackson Doe was the leading challenger to incumbent Head of State Samuel Doe. Official results showed that Samuel received a narrow majority of votes cast in the election, although outside observers alleged widespread fraud;[1] according to organizations such as the BBC, Jackson had won an absolute majority of votes cast nationwide.[2] [3]
In the 19 July 1997
Charles Taylor would return to war
if defeated.
The party fielded candidates in the 11 October 2005
elections as part of the four-party Coalition for the Transformation of Liberia
(COTOL).
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was formerly a prominent party member and Jackson Doe's running mate in 1985, but defected to the Unity Party in the run-up to the 1997 elections. On 1 April 2009, the Liberian Action Party and the Liberia Unification Party merged into the ruling Unity Party.[4]
References
- ^ Moran, Mary H. Liberia: The Violence of Democracy. 1st paperback ed. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2008, 120.
- ^ Gifford, Paul. Christianity and Politics in Doe's Liberia. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993, 22.
- ^ Tarr, S. Byron (1990). "Founding the Liberia Action Party". Liberian Studies Journal. 15 (1): 13–47.
- ^ "UP, LAP, LUP Merged…Ellen Says It's A Dream Come True". Archived from the original on 2011-07-17.
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