{"id":10624,"date":"2023-10-25T14:06:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T14:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/25\/liberia-presidential-election-heads-for-run-off-vote\/"},"modified":"2023-10-25T14:06:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T14:06:39","slug":"liberia-presidential-election-heads-for-run-off-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/25\/liberia-presidential-election-heads-for-run-off-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia presidential election heads for run-off vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Liberia\u2019s electoral commission on Tuesday scheduled a presidential election run-off for November after results showed that the two frontrunners, President George Weah and opposition leader Joseph Boakai, had failed to secure enough votes.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Weah holds a slim lead at 43.83% of the vote, while Boakai has 43.44%, according to tallied results from 100% of polling places, the West African nation\u2019s election commission said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Commission chairperson Davidetta Browne Lansanah said the run-off vote would be held on Nov. 14. She said there was a record turnout of 78.86% of around 2.4 million registered voters.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The Oct. 10 election has been widely seen as a test of support for former soccer star Weah, 57, who was criticized in his first term by the opposition and Liberia\u2019s international partners for not doing enough to tackle corruption.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      On his campaign trail, he asked voters for more time to fulfill his promise to rebuild the nation\u2019s broken economy, institutions and infrastructure, pledging to pave more roads if reelected.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Liberia is struggling to recover from two civil wars that killed more than 250,000 people between 1989 and 2003 and from a 2013-16 Ebola epidemic that killed thousands.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Boakai, 78, was Weah\u2019s main challenger and campaigned on what he called the need to rescue Liberia from alleged mismanagement by Weah\u2019s administration.  <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberia\u2019s electoral commission on Tuesday scheduled a presidential election run-off for November after results showed that the two frontrunners, President George Weah and opposition leader Joseph Boakai, had failed to secure enough votes. Weah holds a slim lead at 43.83% of the vote, while Boakai has 43.44%, according to tallied results from 100% of polling <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}