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in 1993, Goldson struggled on alone. Included among the NABR's setbacks were the UDP's refusal to repeal the MAA, the resurgence of the claim as a result, and
Goldson's troubles as Minister of Immigration, when a passport scandal was uncovered in 1995 and 1996. Goldson – who was in declining health
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Freetown. This gave the NABR the chance to win its first election when the by-election took place in January 1993. However its candidate, Adelma Broaster, finished a distant third. In the city council
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early in June 1993, the NABR jumped at the chance to reunite with the UDP. The UDP-NABR coalition received fewer votes than the PUP, but won a majority of seats – 16 to the PUP's 14. Of the sixteen seats, fifteen were taken by the UDP and one (Goldson in Albert) by the NABR, giving the party its
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by that time – stood down in 1998, having never lost an election in Albert. The men who had originally joined him, Aikman and
Elrington, both ran under the UDP banner in 1998 but lost badly in that year's PUP landslide victory.
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The NABR found that its views were in the minority in the 1993–98 UDP-led
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first and ultimately only elected area representative. Goldson received a cabinet post and the NABR demanded that the now
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