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Political party in Liberia
The
Liberian Action Party
was a
political party
in
Liberia
.
In the country's
1985 elections
, LAP candidate
Jackson Doe
was the leading challenger to incumbent Head of State
Samuel Doe
. Official results showed that Samuel received a narrow majority of votes cast in the election, although outside observers alleged widespread fraud;
[1]
according to organizations such as the
BBC
, Jackson had won an absolute majority of votes cast nationwide.
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[3]
In the 19 July 1997
legislative elections
, the party was part of the
Alliance of Political Parties
, which won 2 out of 64 seats in the
House of Representatives
. While international observers deemed the polls administratively free and transparent, they noted that it had taken place in an atmosphere of intimidation because most voters believed that former rebel leader and
National Patriotic Party
(NPP) candidate
Charles Taylor
would return to
war
if defeated.
The party fielded candidates in the 11 October 2005
elections
as part of the four-party
Coalition for the Transformation of Liberia
(COTOL).
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
was formerly a prominent party member and Jackson Doe's running mate in 1985, but defected to the
Unity Party
in the run-up to the 1997 elections. On 1 April 2009, the Liberian Action Party and the
Liberia Unification Party
merged into the ruling Unity Party.
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