Liberia: The Tough Battle Grounds in the Senatorial Election

Monrovia — Liberians will head to the polls Tuesday, December 8 to elect 15 new senators. Intense battles and very tight races are already afoot as the senatorial candidates engage in last minute activities ahead of the polls.

The nation-wide elections are widely expected to be a race between candidates from the ruling Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC), which comprises of Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor's National Patriotic Party (NPP), President George Weah's Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) and former Speaker Alex Tyler's Liberian People Democratic Party (LPDP), and the opposition Collaborating Political Parties (CPP), a conglomeration of opposition political parties, although others are contesting as independent candidates.

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