Progressive People's Party (Liberia)

The Progressive People's Party (PPP) is a political party in

Liberia Liberia (), officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean to its south and southwest. It ...

. In the 1997

elections An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has opera ...

, PPP presidential candidate Chea Cheapoo won 0.34% of the vote while the party failed to win any seats in the

bicameral Bicameralism is a type of legislature, one divided into two separate assemblies, chambers, or houses, known as a bicameral legislature. Bicameralism is distinguished from unicameralism, in which all members deliberate and vote as a single gro ...

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. Cheapoo was formerly a leading member of the

Progressive Alliance of Liberia The Progressive Alliance of Liberia (PAL) was an opposition political movement formed in 1975 in Liberia led by group of Liberians from the United States and local students. The Political Education Team of the organization was organized, prepared, ...

(PAL) opposition party during the 1970s and its successor, the Progressive People's Party, during the early 1980s. It did not file candidates in the 11 October 2005

, but Cheapoo was once again the party's candidate for president in 2011, winning 0.3% of the vote and no seats in the legislature. Its current status is unclear. Political parties in Liberia {{Liberia-party-stub