| | The 2007 general elections marked a real test for the country's nascent democratic experiment since the installation of multi-party rule in 1996. The victory of the main opposition party, the All People's Congress (APC) in an election that was popularly considered as a ' well administered' exercise showed the progress the country has made in the area of democracy building over the years. Though the elections provided new opportunities for elite renewal, the popularity of the newly elected government relates not necessarily to its programmatic appeal but to the unpopularity of the previous government. The electoral victory can be explained as a response of the electorates to the inability of the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) government to provide concrete responses to the deepening socio-economic malaise that plagued the country. |
