Monrovia — Over 15 registered political parties as well as independent candidates will begin campaign activities across Liberia today, August 5, 2023, ahead of the nation’s much anticipated general and presidential elections slated for October 10, 2023.
This is in keeping with the National Elections Commission (NEC) timetable which obligates political parties and independent candidates to kickstart campaign activities from August 5 to October 8, 2023, as a means of rallying their respective partisans ahead of official polling date.
The NEC on July 14, 2023, reported that a total of one thousand thirty (1,030) aspirants submitted nomination documents to the Commission.
Of this number, one hundred fifty-nine (159) candidates (15 percent) are females while eight hundred seventy-one (871) or 85 percent are males.
Also, the NEC disclosed that independent aspirants account for 199 candidates or 19 percent while aspirants for political parties, coalitions, and alliances are 831 or 81 percent.
Following the conclusion of the exhibition, de-duplication process after the Biometric Voters Registration (BVR), exercise, the NEC announced that two million four hundred seventy-one thousand six hundred seventeen (2,471,617) Liberians will be making decision in the upcoming October 10, presidential and legislative elections.
Out of the number of registered voters, one million two hundred thirty-seven thousand two hundred fifty-seven (1,237,257) are females while one million two hundred thirty-four thousand three hundred sixty (1,234,360) are Males.
In December 2017 George Manneh Weah of the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) defeated Joseph N. Boakai of the Unity Party (UP) 61.5 percent to 38.5 percent resulting in Liberia’s first peaceful transition of power after more than 70 years.
Weah won the first round of the presidential election in October with 38.4 percent of the total votes, compared to the 28.8 percent won by second-placed Joseph N. Boakai.
President George Manneh Weah is now seeking re-election in the upcoming October 10, 2023 presidential election
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