Liberia: As 2014 Special Senatorial Election Results Finally Emerge Ellen Loses 'Majority' in Senate

The final results of the just ended Special Senatorial Election seem to foreshadow a steep journey ahead for President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, as many of her fellow partisans who fought unsuccessfully to maintain their incumbency in the Senate will no longer be around.

Among the 12 senators that stood for reelection, only two return, causing the Executive Mansion to lose about seven strong confidants from the team which was considered "the engine of Madam Sirleaf's legislative success story" on Capitol Hill.

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