Liberia: 2011 Election Faces Opposition Boycott, Unless...

Major donors and democratic institutions across the globe described the 2005 post-war presidential and legislative elections as the freest, fairest, and most democratic in Liberia's 158 years of electioneering.

The elections were organized and run by the National Elections Commission (NEC). Since then, these partners in Liberia's democratization process had been working frantically to upgrade and strengthen NEC for the 2011 general and presidential elections and things seemed to be moving smoothly.

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