Monrovia, Liberia – Liberians will turn out to vote on Tuesday in a poll as current president George Weah seeks a second six-year term.
On October 10, Liberians will vote in the presidential and parliamentary elections.
There are 15 seats in the Senate and 73 seats in the House of Representatives that are up for grabs on Tuesday but attention is mostly focused on the presidential poll.
Current president George Weah of the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC), elected in 2017, is contesting against 19 other candidates including former Vice President Joseph Boakai of the Unity Party (UP) and businessman Alexander Cummings of the Collaborating Political Party (CPP).
This will be the country’s fourth post-war presidential election but the first one without the presence of the United Nations mission which provided support to the country’s elections commission.
Analysts say the election is a referendum on the ruling party’s stint in power so far.
Original from www.aljazeera.com