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Soccer star Weah and VP Boakai near Liberia presidential run-off
Source: Reuters
#WORLD NEWS OCTOBER 14, 2017 / 2:18 PM / UPDATED 4 HOURS AGO
Soccer star Weah and VP Boakai near Liberia presidential run-off
James Giahyue, Alphonso Toweh
3 MIN READ
MONROVIA (Reuters) - Liberian former soccer star George Weah and Vice President Joseph Boakai were comfortably ahead in partial presidential election results announced on Saturday, and look set to contest a run-off next month.
Weah and Boakai lead the 20-candidate field to succeed Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in what would be Liberia’s first democratic transfer of power in more than 70 years.
Weah received 39.2 percent of roughly 1.2 million ballots cast in nearly three-quarters of polling stations, ahead of Boakai, who had 29.6 percent of the vote, the commission said. Charles Brumskine, a lawyer, was a distant third with 9.7 percent.
The final certified results from Tuesday’s poll must be announced by Oct. 25, although provisional results from the remaining precincts are expected in the coming days.
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Soccer star Weah and VP Boakai near Liberia presidential run-off
James Giahyue, Alphonso Toweh
3 MIN READ
MONROVIA (Reuters) - Liberian former soccer star George Weah and Vice President Joseph Boakai were comfortably ahead in partial presidential election results announced on Saturday, and look set to contest a run-off next month.
Weah and Boakai lead the 20-candidate field to succeed Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in what would be Liberia’s first democratic transfer of power in more than 70 years.
Weah received 39.2 percent of roughly 1.2 million ballots cast in nearly three-quarters of polling stations, ahead of Boakai, who had 29.6 percent of the vote, the commission said. Charles Brumskine, a lawyer, was a distant third with 9.7 percent.
The final certified results from Tuesday’s poll must be announced by Oct. 25, although provisional results from the remaining precincts are expected in the coming days.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-liberia-election/soccer-star-weah-and-vp-boakai-near-liberia-presidential-run-off-idUSKBN1CJ0PB
