{"id":82163,"date":"2025-07-16T06:18:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T06:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/pa-njie-girijara-supports-barrow-and-darboes-constitution"},"modified":"2025-07-16T06:32:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T06:32:35","slug":"pa-njie-girijara-supports-barrow-and-darboes-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/pa-njie-girijara-supports-barrow-and-darboes-constitution","title":{"rendered":"Pa Njie Girijara Supports Barrow and Darboe&#8217;S Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>Businessman and political commentator Pa Njie Girijara has claimed that both President Adama Barrow, leader of the National People\u2019s Party (NPP), and opposition leader Ousainu Darboe of the United Democratic Party (UDP) are inclined to preserve the 1997 Constitution, despite years of national efforts to replace it.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview over the weekend, Girijara suggested that political expediency, rather than principle, is behind the failure to adopt a new constitution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem is very simple: to me, both Barrow and Darboe, meaning the government and UDP, prefer the 1997 constitution. That\u2019s why they are making this constitution a ping-pong game,\u201d Girijara said.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that the 2020 draft constitution was blocked by the Barrow administration primarily because of its retroactive two-term limit clause, which would have barred the president from running beyond 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rejection of the 2020 (Draft) constitution\u2014everybody knows why the government and Barrow rejected it. That was the retroactive law as far as the two mandates are concerned, which the constitution only allows one more term instead of the two terms that Barrow and the government wanted. It was rejected on those bases,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Girijara noted that the 2024 draft constitution, which closely mirrors the 2020 version but excludes the retroactive clause, was still not supported\u2014this time, he suggested, due to opposition from Darboe and the UDP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow the 2024 (Draft) constitution is a replica of the 2020 (Draft) constitution; there are not many changes, but then when I looked at the attitudes of both UDP and NPP, rejecting it by making sure that it does not pass the first round, I think, is a wish for Darboe and the UDP,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Girijara also raised concerns about the opposition\u2019s true commitment to constitutional reforms, particularly the enforcement of a two-term presidential limit should the UDP come to power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe advocacy is to get to power, and when they get to power, will they want to implement the two-term limit? Yes or no? I have my doubts about that. It seems to me that if Darboe and the UDP wanted the two-term limit, they could have. I will say this time around, the CRC removed the retroactive law, and then Barrow will be in his first term. After 2026, he will not stand for election again, and that will be in 2031,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Gambia<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. Businessman and political commentator Pa Njie Girijara has claimed that both President Adama Barrow, leader of the National People\u2019s Party (NPP), and opposition leader Ousainu Darboe of the United Democratic Party (UDP) are inclined to preserve the 1997 Constitution, despite years of national efforts to replace it. 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