Liberia: Code of Conduct Likely to Be Declared Inapplicable

Monrovia — The contentious National Code of Conduct (CoC) which is supposed to have a great bearing on Liberia's historic elections coming up in October is receiving a back kick, as calls mount for the suspension of certain provisions that tend to determine who does or who does not partake in the upcoming elections.

The Code of Conduct stood the test of the law when disenchanted Selena Mappy-Polson of Bong County filed a Petition for Declaratory Judgment before the Supreme Court in 2015, claiming that Sections 5.1 and 5.2 of the Code of Conduct Act of 2014 were discriminatory and infringed on her rights granted under the Constitution to freely partake in any elections.

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