{"id":432992,"date":"2017-11-01T10:56:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T10:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/11\/01\/liberia-presidential-vote-halted-by-countrys-supreme-court\/"},"modified":"2017-11-01T10:56:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T10:56:41","slug":"liberia-presidential-vote-halted-by-countrys-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/01\/liberia-presidential-vote-halted-by-countrys-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia presidential vote halted by country\u2019s Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-272478\">\n<div class=\"post-header post-tp-1-header\">\n<div class=\"single-featured\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img alt=\"\" data-src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/liberia-election.jpg\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix single-post-content\">\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Liberia\u2019s Supreme Court has ordered preparations for Tuesday\u2019s presidential run-off vote be halted amid allegations of fraud from an eliminated candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Ex-football star George Weah and Vice-President Joseph Boakai are due to go head-to-head in the 7 November vote.<\/p>\n<p>But the Liberty Party\u2019s Charles Brumskine, who came third in the first round, has challenged the result.<\/p>\n<p>Last month\u2019s election was the country\u2019s first independently run vote following the end of civil war in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>The court has instructed the Liberty Party and the country\u2019s electoral commission to present their cases by Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>However, election commission spokesman Henry Flomo told the BBC it had not yet been officially informed of the Supreme Court\u2019s order.<\/p>\n<p>But if there is an injunction, the commission will abide by it as the Supreme Court is the highest court and its decisions are final, Mr Flomo added.<\/p>\n<p>International observers including the European Union had not raised concerns about the first round of voting.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: BBC<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"bsac bsac-clearfix bsac-post-bottom bsac-float-center bsac-align-center bsac-column-1\">\n<div id=\"bsac-268363-1921380854\" class=\"bsac-container bsac-type-image \" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/WPAdBlock\" data-adid=\"268363\" data-type=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bsac-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/newmont_beyondmind92870.gif\" alt=\"Homepage Header Ad\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberia\u2019s Supreme Court has ordered preparations for Tuesday\u2019s presidential run-off vote be halted amid allegations of fraud from an eliminated candidate. Ex-football star George Weah and Vice-President Joseph Boakai are due to go head-to-head in the 7 November vote. But the Liberty Party\u2019s Charles Brumskine, who came third in the first round, has challenged the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":432993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Liberia presidential vote halted by country\u2019s Supreme Court - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/01\/liberia-presidential-vote-halted-by-countrys-supreme-court\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Liberia presidential vote halted by country\u2019s Supreme Court - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Liberia\u2019s Supreme Court has ordered preparations for Tuesday\u2019s presidential run-off vote be halted amid allegations of fraud from an eliminated candidate. 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