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Liberians began voting for the run-off election. The keenly contested election will decide whether to re-elect former soccer star George Weah to the presidency or prefer veteran Joseph Boakai despite his age
Liberians began voting for the run-off election. The keenly contested election will decide whether to re-elect former soccer star George Weah to the presidency or prefer veteran Joseph Boakai despite his age.
This second round of the presidential election was necessary since none of the candidates received more than 50% of the votes cast. The run-off is also likely to be a close contest. Both Weah and Boakai had a similar electoral experience in 2017. Weah won with over 61% of the vote in that contest.
Weah, 57, and Boakai, 78, came neck-and-neck in the first round on October 10, with just over 43% and a lead of 7,126 votes for the incumbent. This election is the first to be held without the presence of the United Nations mission in Liberia, which was set up in 2003 (and left in 2018) to guarantee peace after the civil wars that left more than 250,000 people dead between 1989 and 2003, and whose memory remains vivid.
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More than 2.4 million voters are invited to cast their ballots from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm (local time and GMT) between an incumbent who remains popular among young people but must defend a criticized record, and an old hand who was from 2006 to 2018 the vice-president of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa’s first elected female head of state. The electoral commission has 15 days to publish the results, but the matter could take less time, says one of its officials, Samuel Cole.
