Liberia: ANC's Cummings Says CPP Collapse Must Not Block Opposition Unity

What the report says

Liberia’s opposition realignment is back in focus after Alternative National Congress leader Alexander B. Cummings said the breakup of the former Collaborating Political Parties should not prevent opposition figures from cooperating again. The comments came in Monrovia on Sunday, a day after former President George Manneh Weah hosted opposition leaders at a roundtable at his Jamaica Resort office in Paynesville, raising fresh questions about whether rivals can form a common position ahead of the 2029 election cycle.

According to The Liberian Investigator, Cummings argued that lessons from the CPP’s collapse should guide any new alliance rather than serve as a barrier to it. He said opposition parties should work together more carefully while avoiding the internal disputes that helped fracture the earlier coalition. The CPP had brought together the ANC, Unity Party, Liberty Party and All Liberian Party, but later split over leadership and its framework document. Those divisions deepened before the 2023 election, and the alliance was dissolved in 2024.

Cummings also called for a change in political culture, saying rivals should focus less on tearing one another down and more on producing ideas that help the country. He said the opposition should still scrutinize the Boakai administration, but with practical alternatives attached. He did not say whether the ANC would join any new arrangement emerging from Weah’s meeting, and he left open rather than confirming whether he would accept a vice-presidential role on another ticket. The remarks suggest early maneuvering among Liberia’s opposition blocs as they consider post-CPP cooperation.