LIBERIA BACKS CHALLENGE TO PRESIDENTIAL RESULT

Published on October 30 2017 by Flashmenews New

LIBERIA BACKS CHALLENGE TO PRESIDENTIAL RESULT
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Liberia’s Unity Party (UP) said it would back a legal challenge to the result, accusing President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of interfering in the vote.

UP, Liberia’s ruling party candidate finished runner-up in the first round of this month’s presidential election.

Unity Party said in a statement that the Oct. 10 poll, meant to usher in Liberia’s first democratic transition of power since 1944, was “characterised by massive systematic irregularities and fraud”.

The statement, read to reporters by Unity Party Chairman Wilmont Paye, said Johnson Sirleaf had acted inappropriately by meeting privately with elections magistrates before the vote

“Greed has resurfaced in its most callous form, sowing seeds of discord yet again with the intent of disrupting the fragile peace of Liberia,” the party said in its statement.
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