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Liberia: Run Off Between Weah, Boakai Slated For November 7 by ruggedmallaam(m): 6:04am On Oct 17, 2017 |
Former soccer star
George Weah will face
Liberian Vice President
Joseph Boakai in a runoff
election on November 7.
Liberia held its
presidential election on
Tuesday, but no
candidate secured 50
percent of the vote,
which is required in order
to win without a runoff.
Mr. Weah topped the poll
with 39 percent of the
vote while the vice
president came in
second with 29.1
percent. Twenty
candidates contested for
the presidency.
The Chairman of the
National Elections
Commission, Jerome
Korkoya, said that
1,550,923 votes had
been tallied, amounting to
a turnout of 74.52
percent,
The winner of the
November 7 contest will
replace President Ellen
Johnson Sirleaf, who has
served two terms as
Africa’s first woman
head of state.
Before Mrs. Johnson
Sirleaf took office in
2006, the small west
African country was
ruled by warlord Charles
Taylor, who is serving a
50-year prison sentence
for war crimes. He has
thrown his support
behind the former FIFA
World Footballer of the
Year, Mr. Weah.
Liberia has not had a
peaceful transfer of
power in 73 years.
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