Cabinet of Adama Barrow | |
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![]() Adama Barrow in 2016
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Date formed | 19 January 2017 |
People and organisations | |
Head of state | Adama Barrow |
Head of government | Adama Barrow |
Deputy head of government | Fatoumata Tambajang |
No. of ministers | 18 |
Member parties | Coalition 2016 (UDP, PDOIS, NRP, GMC, GPDP, PPP and NCP) |
Status in legislature | UDP majority |
Opposition parties | APRC, GDC |
Opposition leader | Fabakary Jatta |
History | |
Election(s) | Gambian presidential election, 2016 |
Following his victory in the presidential election on 1 December 2016, the newly elected President Adama Barrow appointed a new cabinet to succeed the cabinet of Yahya Jammeh, his predecessor. Barrow was formally inaugurated on 19 January 2017 at the embassy of the Gambia in Dakar, Senegal, and was able to return the Gambia on 26 January. He made a number of appointments on 1 February 2017, and several more on 22 February.
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Presidents of the Gambia can also make other senior appointments, that do not sit in the cabinet. President Barrow has made the following appointments: