NEWS ANALYSIS: Al Jama-ah shows how small parties can win seats
Al Jama-ah benefited from communal and cultural networks
06 June 2019 - 17:44
The leaders of Al Jama-ah would have been watching the numbers nervously as last month's general election results began coming through.
The nerves would have turned to relief when the party became the 14th – and last – to make it into the National Assembly, in a process always touch-and-go near the end of the counting...
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