Mama Kandeh

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Mama Kandeh
Personal details
Born	(1965-07-12) 12 July 1965 (age 58)
Political party	Gambia Democratic Congress (2016–present) Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (until 2016)

Mama Kandeh (born 12 July 1965) is a member of the Pan-African Parliament from the Gambia. He is the founding leader of the Gambia Democratic Congress (GDC) political party, which he formed in the summer of 2016. He ran as a candidate in the Gambian presidential election of 2016 and received 17.1% of the votes.^[1]

Background

He once attended Crab Island School in Banjul, and Gambia Technical Training Institute [de] (GTTI) in Jeshwang, Serrekunda, Kanifing.^[2]

He was formerly a member of the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction, which was the ruling party at the time, but was expelled and formed the GDC.^{[citation needed]}

He pulled 17.8 % of the votes in the Gambian presidential election of 2016.^[3]

In November 2021, Mama Kandeh's candidacy for the presidential election of 2021-22 is validated by the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI).^[4] He was endorsed by ex-President and former rival Yahya Jammeh.^[5] He ended up as the third with 12.32% of the vote in the 2021 election, which was won by incumbent president Adama Barrow.^[6]

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