Liberia: NEC Gears Up for Grand Bassa County By-Election

28 February 2013

The National Elections Commission (NEC) has mandated the Elections Magistrate of Grand Bassa County to conduct a senatorial By-Election to fill a vacant seat in the Liberian Senate. Magistrate David Logan received the commission Tuesday at ceremonies marking the issuance of a Writ of Elections held in the provincial city of Buchanan, Grand Bassa County.

The issuance of the Writ comes against the milieu of a February 18 letter written to the Acting Chairman of the NEC, Cllr. Elizabeth Nelson, by the President Pro-Tempore of the Senate, Gbehzongar Findley, notifying the commission of the existence of a vacancy in the Senate necessitated by the death of Grand BassaCounty Senator John Francis Whitfield.

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