Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who is apparently taken aback by the low turn-out of voters in the first round of the senatorial by-election, has urged registered voters who did not vote in the first round to go to the polls on Tuesday 24 November to cast their ballots.
According to the National Elections Commission, a paltry 20.2 percent of the electorate voted in the first round of the Montserrado County by-election to elect a replacement for Senator Hannah Brent who passed away in August this year.
Montserrado Countyhosts Monrovia the capital city.
“The election offers an opportunity for all to elect the person who will best represent them,” President Johnson Sirleaf told reporters late Monday.
She commended the electorate, candidates and political parties for “exercising a great level of political maturity” during the first round of the by-election on 10 November.
Sirleaf cautioned partisans of the ruling Unity Party and former soccer star George Weah’s Congress for Democratic Change whose candidates have been qualified to participate in the run-off, to show the same level of political maturity as during the first round of the by-election.
“In elections, candidates may have some differences but those differences can be resolved through dialogue and peaceful negotiations,” the Liberian leader noted.
“No matter who wins, my government will work with people who have plans to make the Liberian nation a better place,” he said.
Source African Press Agency
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