Meet Macdella Cooper, the only female candidate in Liberia’s 2017 presidential elections, now running for a senatorial position
By Samuel Abuya
Macdella Cooper, a Liberian humanitarian and activist who ran in the country’s 2017 presidential election as the only female candidate, is set to contest for a senatorial seat in that has been designated as a “woman’s seat” meant to address the gender inequality in a 30-member senate which has only one female senate.
Cooper, who is not new in Liberia’s political landscape, will run on platform of private sector reforms and jobs creation by emulating internationally accepted practices of setting up businesses and expanding the existing ones. Cooper also has a very keen eye on natural resources exploration and exploitation, something which helps driving the West African country’s economy in a bigger way.
According to Cooper, all that can only be achieved if the country develops investor-friendly atmosphere of rules and regulations recognizing the critical role that the private sector plays as one of the main drivers of the economic expansion and sustainability.
In the 2017 presidential election, the then 42-year-old Cooper ran under the Liberia Restoration Party (LRP) which was by then a newly registered political party.
Under her current rallying call of “A voice for the voiceless”, Cooper has promised to inject some new blood into the country’s socio-economic base and working closely together with other business friendly legislators in the senate.
Cooper spent most of her childhood in Liberia before moving to the United States of America at the age of 16 where she sought refuge after the country was engulfed in civil war. She would later win a scholarship and study electronic communications at the College of New Jersey. In 2004, she founded the Macdella Cooper Foundation, which is basically a charity organisation that is dedicated to eradicating poverty in Liberia. She returned back home in 2005.
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