{"id":90862,"date":"2025-11-25T07:19:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/madi-jobarteh-presses-barrow-on-election-bill-delay"},"modified":"2025-11-25T07:50:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:50:41","slug":"madi-jobarteh-presses-barrow-on-election-bill-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/madi-jobarteh-presses-barrow-on-election-bill-delay","title":{"rendered":"Madi Jobarteh Presses Barrow on Election Bill Delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>Human rights activist Madi Jobarteh has publicly questioned President Adama Barrow\u2019s continued delay in acting on the Election Bill, which lawmakers passed nearly two months ago. Jobarteh, a prominent voice in civil society, warned that the legislation in its current form poses risks to democratic governance and urged the president to return it to the National Assembly for revision.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In a statement posted on his official Facebook page, Jobarteh asked, \u201cWhat\u2019s the President doing with the Election Bill approved on Sept. 29?\u201d He described the bill as \u201cbad for democracy\u201d and said it requires \u201ccritical amendments\u201d before it can be enacted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is almost two months, yet there\u2019s no update from both the State House and the Assembly,\u201d he wrote, criticizing what he called an unusual silence around a piece of legislation central to the country\u2019s political process.<\/p>\n<p>Jobarteh\u2019s comments have renewed public scrutiny of the bill and highlighted the broader role of civil society in pushing for transparency and accountability in the drafting of electoral laws.<\/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. Human rights activist Madi Jobarteh has publicly questioned President Adama Barrow\u2019s continued delay in acting on the Election Bill, which lawmakers passed nearly two months ago. Jobarteh, a prominent voice in civil society, warned that the legislation in its current form poses risks to democratic governance and urged the president to return [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":90861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-90862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-gambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Madi Jobarteh Presses Barrow on Election Bill Delay - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Human rights activist Madi Jobarteh has publicly questioned President Adama Barrow\u2019s continued delay in acting on the ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/madi-jobarteh-presses-barrow-on-election-bill-delay\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Madi Jobarteh Presses Barrow on Election Bill Delay\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Human rights activist Madi Jobarteh has publicly questioned President Adama Barrow\u2019s continued delay in acting on the ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/madi-jobarteh-presses-barrow-on-election-bill-delay\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-11-25T07:19:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-11-25T07:50:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/11\/sm_1764044252.827009.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"940\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/madi-jobarteh-presses-barrow-on-election-bill-delay#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/madi-jobarteh-presses-barrow-on-election-bill-delay\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Madi Jobarteh Presses Barrow on Election Bill Delay\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-11-25T07:19:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-11-25T07:50:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/madi-jobarteh-presses-barrow-on-election-bill-delay\"},\"wordCount\":191,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/madi-jobarteh-presses-barrow-on-election-bill-delay#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2025\/11\/sm_1764044252.827009.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Gambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/madi-jobarteh-presses-barrow-on-election-bill-delay#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/madi-jobarteh-presses-barrow-on-election-bill-delay\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/madi-jobarteh-presses-barrow-on-election-bill-delay\",\"name\":\"Madi Jobarteh Presses Barrow on Election Bill Delay - 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