Will Liberia’s President, George Weah return to office? This is the question on the lips of Liberians and many of his fans world wide
At the moment, the President and his rival Joseph Boakai are neck and neck, with votes from nearly 73% of polling stations counted, provisional results show.
Weah has 43.8% while Boakai has 43.54% of the votes tallied so far, following the 10 October elections.
A run-off will be held if neither candidate gets more than 50%.
Weah, a former football star, won a run-off in the 2017 poll with 61.5% to Mr Boakai’s 38.5%.
He had won the first round with 38.4% of the vote, compared with Boakai’s 28.8%, suggesting that Mr Boakai is faring better in this election.
By Sunday, Liberia’s elections commission had tallied votes from 4,295 of the 5,890 polling stations.
The body has 15 days from the date of the election to announce the final results. If there is no outright winner, a run-off will be held on 7 November.
More than 2.4 million Liberians, many of them first-time voters born after the 1989-2003 civil wars, had registered to elect the president, members of the House of Representatives and half the Senate.
Local and regional election observers reported peaceful polls and a high turnout across the country, but cited problems such as voting delays at some polling stations.
Despite the slow announcement of results, the West African regional bloc Ecowas, of which Liberia is a member, has asked Liberians to “continue to exercise maximum restraint as they wait for official provisional results”.
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Good luck to him
Fingers crossed