The political leader of the Liberia People Democratic Party (LPDP), Alex Tyler, has insisted that Wednesday’s signing of the Framework Document by his party’s National Chairman Moses Kollie reaffirming the party to the tripartite political marriage with President George Weah’s Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) and the National Patriotic Party (NPP) would be scrutinized upon his return to the country.
By: Henry Karmo [email protected]
Kollie during the signing ceremony said the decision to sign was made by two-thirds of the executive committee members of the party which is the highest decision-making body guaranteeing the party’s bond the Coalition for Democratic Change.
“The party made a decision and I am speaking as a party disciplined. The constitution, including the National Elections Commission’s guidelines, says two-third of the party members are required to sign, but we had almost 85 percent of the executive committee signed into the document and we had almost 99 percent of the executive committee members accompanying us to do the signing.”
“There will always be issues, but as leaders we must find a way to resolve our issues so it doesn’t break us apart. Every political party in the world the executive committee is the highest decision making body in the absence of a convention,” he said.
“The LPDP didn’t need Mr. Tyler’s endorsement to sign the Framework Document that bonds the party with the two other political institutions.”
But Tyler responding to a concern from FrontPageafrica about Wednesday’s signing ceremony said all is not settled and he was away from the country and would speak to it upon his return.
Tyler said: “All is not settled, but I will speak to it when I return. I am out of the country right now.”
Tyler insists that contrary to information that there was a document signed between the LPDP, CDC and NPP to renew what was signed in 2017, there hasn’t been any coalition formed.
The former House Speaker described as “misinformation” news that his political institution was part of President George Weah’s endorsement to contest for re-election in October 2023.
“The misinformation is that the Coalition for Democratic Change which comprises the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), the National Patriotic Party (NPP), and the Liberia People Democratic Party (LPDP) did a petitioning ceremony for the President. I think it is unfair for anybody to say that because we still do not have a Coalition the discussions are ongoing,” he said.
According to Tyler, the Framework dtocument that established the Coalition for Democratic change (CDC) expired in November o2022 and a new document to establish another Coalition is being discussed and hasn’t been concluded.
He also said for five years, he has been accused by partisans of the party for taking them to a Coalition with Weah’s CDC that has yielded no benefit, claiming that in 2016, they formed the Coalition on “trust” and made no demands because there were no jobs available and it is such error they want to correct before entering the 2023 elections.
“We have been having discussions we came up with the document our party received a final document and there was contention. For five years, our people have been crying for jobs and begging and that wasn’t the idea we formed a coalition on we didn’t go into it to be spectators.
“If we tell you how this government was set we will be telling you lies. The reason we have quite is that we dressed this “devil” and we taught it would not be necessary to undress it in the public we have had discussions behind the scene,” he said.
“The situation at hand was being discussed prior the endorsement program Saturday, but people in Weah’s CDC thought the political rally Saturday was more important.”
