Joe, I beg to differ as per your views on the october 18th. elections which you discribed as a referandum for the PPP. Five presidential candidates contested and Jammeh came up with an absulute majority. What stopped the voters from endorsing Dibba or Jatta or Bah if the UDP's rejection was as a result of their association with the PPP? Yes The Gambian voters may have two faces but not in a vacuum. You are right when you talked about inducement. That can come from neither NRP, NCP, UDP led coalition nor PDOIS. All other unconventional methods used during the election was by the APRC.--- inducement, intimidation, harrasement, registration of forign nationals, tribalism, killings, arrests and detention etc. With all these in place how can you call it a referandum for PPP and APRC? Concerning the tactical alliance you proposed, parhaps you need to go a little bit into details. Long before the lifting of the ban on the former politicians there was a lot of debate on this topic and everybody including all opposition parties agreed in principle as to the need to come together and fight the APRC regime. What was missing was the details of how to go about it. Please favour me with your views on that. <<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>> To view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] <<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>