The independent female candidate and anti-female genital mutilation activist Dr Isatou Touray and a civil society group headed by Fatoumatta Tambajang also joined the coalition.
[2] Barrow won the presidential election, unseating incumbent Yahya Jammeh after more than 20 years in power.
Coalition 2016 members later worked together as a parliamentary supermajority in the first half of the National Assembly 2017-2022 term.
Their cooperation ended before the 2022 parliamentary elections, which the parties contested independently due to internal disputes.
Barrow set up his own party centred around his leadership, and all Coalition 2016 members except the NRP went into opposition.