{"id":450676,"date":"2017-12-28T20:21:45","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T20:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/28\/soccer-star-george-weah-wins-liberian-presidential-election\/"},"modified":"2017-12-28T20:21:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T20:21:45","slug":"soccer-star-george-weah-wins-liberian-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/28\/soccer-star-george-weah-wins-liberian-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer star George Weah wins Liberian presidential election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Thursday, 28 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>reuters.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-28<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/67031533.295.jpg\" alt=\"George Weah Wins2017\" title=\"George Weah Wins2017\" width=\"295\" height=\"207\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>George Weah has defeated Joseph Boakai to win Liberia\u2019s presidential run-off election with 61.5%<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1514492505_0_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Former soccer star George Weah has defeated Vice President Joseph Boakai to win Liberia\u2019s presidential run-off election with 61.5 percent of the vote based on 98.1 percent of ballots cast, the election commission said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Weah will succeed incumbent President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf next month in what will be Liberia\u2019s first democratic transition since 1944.<\/p>\n<p>Weah supporters paraded through the streets of the capital Monrovia and honked car horns to celebrate the news.<\/p>\n<p>Weah grew up in Clara Town slum in Monrovia and went on to star for AC Milan, Paris St Germain and Chelsea and become the only African to win FIFA World Player of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>His rags to riches story helped him tap into dissatisfaction with Johnson Sirleaf\u2019s 12-year tenure, which drew a line under years of civil war but was criticized for failing to root out elite corruption or persistent poverty.<\/p>\n<p>Turnout for the second round stood at 56 percent, National Election Commission (NEC) Chairman Jerome Korkoyah told reporters in Monrovia.<\/p>\n<p>Liberia is Africa\u2019s oldest modern republic and was founded by freed U.S. slaves in 1847. 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