{"id":367349,"date":"2017-11-01T10:43:36","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T10:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=367349"},"modified":"2017-11-01T10:43:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T10:43:36","slug":"supreme-court-halts-presidential-election-re-run-in-liberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/11\/supreme-court-halts-presidential-election-re-run-in-liberia\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court halts presidential election re-run in Liberia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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":"
Liberia’s Supreme Court has ordered preparations for Tuesday’s presidential run-off vote be halted amid allegations of fraud from an eliminated candidate. Ex-football star George Weah and Vice-President Joseph Boakai are due to go head-to-head in the 7 November vote. But the Liberty Party’s Charles Brumskine, who came third in the first round, has challenged the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107],"tags":[729,726,597],"yoast_head":"\n