By S. Winston Blyden

IPNews-Monrovia: Days after the official signing of a document that legally binds the Collaborating Political Parties-CPP, of the Alternative National Congress, Liberty Party, the All Liberian Party, and former running party, the Unity Party, another eleven opposition political parties in Liberia have again signed a ‘Declaration of Intent’, geared towards the establishment of what they described as a Rainbow Alliance.

The eleven registered political parties includes: Victory for Change Party, Vision for Liberia Transformation Party, Democratic Justice Party, Movement for Economic Empowerment, Grassroots Democratic Party of Liberia, and Redemption Democratic Congress.

Others are: the Change Democratic Action, New Liberia Party, Liberia Restoration Party, People’s Unification Party and the True Whig Party.

Speaking during the signing ceremony at a local hotel in Monrovia Thursday, the organizing chairman of the Rainbow Alliance, Reginald Goodridge said, the alliance is destined to become the biggest political collaboration in the history of Liberia.

With the motto “Strength in Unity”, Mr. Goodridge said the declaration of intent by the eleven political parties, seeks a common vision to harness efforts and join forces to reduce the polarization of the political landscape and reawaken public trust and confidence in the political system of the state.

The former Information Minister maintained that as a Government in waiting, the Rainbow Alliance plans to govern itself with efficiency, intelligence and mental stabilization.

The formation of the new Rainbow Alliance, has been greeted with mixed reaction from ordinary Liberians.

Some continued to question the rationale behind the formation of another collaboration in less than 24 hours following the signing of the four collaborating political parties.

Liberians spoken to expressed regrets that the formation of the various collaboration and alliances will undermine a united front to unseat the government of President George We ah in the upcoming 2023 elections.

Some termed the action by the 11 opposition political parties as being greedy and self seeking.

It may be recalled, opposition political parties during hours leading to the 2011, could not settled in a united front against the former Unity party of Africa’s first female president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, making to win two con-executive elections of 2005 and 2017 respectively.