Liberia: Senate Election Winners & Losers - Vote Puts EJS On Ropes

Monrovia - Liberia's National Elections Commission, according to its chair Cllr. Jerome Korkoya, will not officially declare winners in this year's controversial senatorial elections until two weeks elapse, but should provisional numbers stay as they are, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf could be staring down the barrel of a horrendous final lap of her presidency, facing old nemesis and the intriguing prospects of new-look Senate that could complicate her presidential legacy.

Much of the results from polling stations across the country began pouring in immediately after polling stations closed Saturday night, but NEC, in keeping with its constitutional mandate to conduct elections, will declare final official results within the two-week timeframe prescribed by law. "Therefore the results of votes cast at each polling place in the country will be processed at the appropriate tally centers across the country for onward transmission to the NEC Headquarters in Monrovia where the announcement of Progressive provisional results will begin early next week," Korkoya averred.

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