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Outcome Of Presidential Election In The Gambia

EDM number 780 in 2016-17, proposed by Ann Clwyd on 07/12/2016.
Categorised under the topics of Africa, International politics and government and Election results : international.

That this House notes the result of the presidential election in the Gambia, held on 1 December 2016, which Adama Barrow won; welcomes the remarks made by outgoing President Yahya Jammeh which acknowledge his defeat and commit to a peaceful transfer of power; further notes that Mr Barrow will become only the third Gambian head of state since the country's independence in 1965; hopes that the new President and his government will govern for the benefit of all Gambians, many of whom live in poverty, will uphold their international human rights obligations, including by releasing all political prisoners and those who have disappeared and by reforming all repressive laws, and will not pull out of the International Criminal Court; and calls on the Government to monitor the situation closely with a view to supporting a peaceful transfer of power and good grievance in the Gambia.

This motion has been signed by a total of 17 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Ann Clwyd07/12/2016Cynon ValleyLabourProposed
Peter Bottomley07/12/2016Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Mark Durkan07/12/2016FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Fiona Mactaggart07/12/2016SloughLabourSeconded
Margaret Ritchie07/12/2016South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Jim Shannon08/12/2016StrangfordDUPSeconded
Chris Stephens08/12/2016Glasgow South WestScottish National PartySigned
Natalie McGarry13/12/2016Glasgow EastScottish National PartySigned
Anne McLaughlin14/12/2016Glasgow North EastScottish National PartySigned
Lady Hermon14/12/2016North DownIndependentSigned
Mark Williams15/12/2016CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
Alex Salmond16/12/2016Signed
Margaret Ferrier16/12/2016Rutherglen and Hamilton WestScottish National PartySigned
Alan Brown19/12/2016Kilmarnock and LoudounScottish National PartySigned
Drew Hendry19/12/2016Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and StrathspeyScottish National PartySigned
Kirsten Oswald19/12/2016East RenfrewshireScottish National PartySigned
Albert Owen19/01/2017Ynys MLabourSigned

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