Delegates ratified the manifesto at the Council sitting in Banjul, with costed commitments across all three pillars.
At its sitting in Banjul this weekend, the National Council of the Unite Movement for Change ratified the party's 2026 platform. Delegates from every region debated, amended, and adopted a costed programme spanning jobs, housing, and public-sector accountability.
Process matters
The platform was not handed down. It was built, over six months, through a structured consultation that ran in every region and across the diaspora. More than four thousand members participated in at least one stage of the process — a number we will publish methodology for, because numbers without methodology are noise.
Council debate this weekend was substantive. Twenty-three amendments were tabled; eleven were adopted. The full record will be published with the platform document next week.
What was ratified
Three pillars, twenty-eight commitments. Jobs: a youth apprenticeship guarantee, a single-window business registration, a microcredit facility without land collateral. Housing: ten thousand affordable homes, a digitised land registry, an end to discretionary ministerial allocation. Accountability: an annual public-money outcomes report, whistleblower protection legislation, full publication of every major government contract above a defined threshold.
Each commitment has a costing, a timeline, and a named lead — which is to say, accountability that runs to a person, not just a paragraph.
Manifestos are easy to write and hard to deliver. We did the harder work first — the costing, the timelines, the names. Now the easy part: telling you about it.
What happens next
The full platform document goes online next week. The town hall tour, which begins later this month, will work through it region by region. Members will get the chance to challenge the costings and propose refinements before the final version is locked in for the campaign cycle.
Thanks
To every member who participated in the consultation, the regional working groups, and the Council debate this weekend: thank you. The platform is yours. We hold it in trust and we will deliver it.