{"id":91084,"date":"2025-11-30T07:25:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T07:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/yaya-mengteng-sanyang-advocates-term-limits-for-party-leaders"},"modified":"2025-11-30T07:42:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T07:42:16","slug":"yaya-mengteng-sanyang-advocates-term-limits-for-party-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/yaya-mengteng-sanyang-advocates-term-limits-for-party-leaders","title":{"rendered":"Yaya Mengteng Sanyang Advocates Term Limits for Party Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>Hon. Yaya Mengteng Sanyang, a senior official of the Unite Movement for Change, has called for sweeping political reforms, urging Gambian parties\u2014and the nation at large\u2014to adopt strict, legally binding term limits for party flag bearers.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In a statement published on his official Facebook page, Mr. Sanyang said the reforms should begin within individual party constitutions and ultimately be codified in the country\u2019s supreme law. The goal, he said, is to curb entrenched leadership and encourage greater political accountability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur first action should be to implement strict, non-negotiable term limits for flag bearers within our respective party constitutions, followed by an amendment to the National Constitution,\u201d he wrote. Such measures, he argued, would help \u201cprevent the entrenchment of power\u201d and ensure a regular infusion of new leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Sanyang pointed to his own party\u2019s internal rules as an example of the kind of governance he hopes to see nationwide. \u201cIn the Unite Movement for Change, there is a strict, non-negotiable term limit for our flag bearers,\u201d he said, urging Gambians dissatisfied with the status quo to consider the UMC as a political alternative.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks were explicitly framed around the approach of the 2026 presidential election, in which President Adama Barrow is widely expected to seek a third term. \u201cWe urge you to leave political parties without term limits for flag bearers and join us to ensure that Adama Barrow is denied a third term at the polls in 2026,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The intervention comes amid renewed debate over constitutional reforms in The Gambia, where civil society groups and opposition parties have increasingly pressed for term limits and stronger democratic safeguards. Mr. Sanyang\u2019s comments underscore the UMC\u2019s effort to position itself at the forefront of that movement as the country heads into a pivotal election cycle.<\/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. Hon. Yaya Mengteng Sanyang, a senior official of the Unite Movement for Change, has called for sweeping political reforms, urging Gambian parties\u2014and the nation at large\u2014to adopt strict, legally binding term limits for party flag bearers. In a statement published on his official Facebook page, Mr. Sanyang said the reforms should begin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":91083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-91084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","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>Yaya Mengteng Sanyang Advocates Term Limits for Party Leaders - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hon. 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