Liberia: CPP Calls for the Resignation of Elections Commission Commissioners Over Decision to Conduct Referendum - Threaten Boycott On December 8

Monrovia — Opposition political parties, including the Collaborating Political Parties (CPP), the Rainbow Alliance, University of Liberia campus-based Student Unification Party, other opposition parties and civil society organizations, are requesting a postponement of the Referendum. As it stands, the Referendum might likely take place during the Special Senatorial election scheduled for December 8th.

In a joint statement issued Wednesday, December 2nd, at the headquarters of the Alternative National Congress (ANC) and read by its standard bearer and chairman of the CPP, Mr. Alexander Benedict Cummings, they called for the resignation of the current Board of Commissioners of the National Elections Commission (NEC) "given their partisan nature, inexperience and ineptitude."

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