Liberia’s Supreme Court has ordered preparations for Tuesday’s presidential run-off vote be halted amid allegations of fraud from an eliminated candidate.<\/p>\n
Ex-football star George Weah and Vice-President Joseph Boakai are due to go head-to-head in the 7 November vote.<\/p>\n
But the Liberty Party’s Charles Brumskine, who came third in the first round, has challenged the result.<\/p>\n
Last month’s election was the country’s first independently run vote following the end of civil war in 2003.<\/p>\n
The court has instructed the Liberty Party and the country’s electoral commission to present their cases by Thursday.<\/p>\n
However, election commission spokesman Henry Flomo told the BBC it had not yet been officially informed of the Supreme Court’s order.<\/p>\n
But if there is an injunction, the commission will abide by it as the Supreme Court is the highest court and its decisions are final, Mr Flomo added.<\/p>\n
International observers including the European Union had not raised concerns about the first round of voting.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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