Liberians will vote tomorrow in a run-off election between President George Weah and former vice President Joseph Boakai after a fiercely fought first round in which neither was able to score over 50 percent of the vote to secure an outright victory.
Football icon Weah, led the first round in October, gaining 43.83 percent of the vote, and Boakai had 43.44 percent.
Boakai, is a political veteran who from 2006 to 2018 was deputy to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa’s first elected female head of state.
Analysts say the thin margin of votes between them out of almost two million votes and the absence of a strong third candidate, means the round will also be very competitive.
This is the country’s fourth post-war presidential election but the first one without the presence of the United Nations mission which previously provided support to the country’s elections commission.
