Monrovia: Liberia’s ruling party on Sunday announced a formal complaint against the electoral commission over the outcome of the October 10 presidential poll, days before a runoff involving its candidate, Vice President Joseph Boakai.
The Unity Party said it would join two other parties in seeking “a logical legal conclusion as quickly as permissible under Liberian law,” following the Liberty Party and All Liberian Party (ALP) in lodging complaints with the National Elections Commission (NEC).
A statement released by the three parties said the poll, which saw former international footballer George Weah take the most votes, was “characterised by massive systematic irregularities and fraud.”
The statement also accused incumbent President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, also of the Unity Party, of “interfering” with the election by meeting polling officials at her residence.
The meeting, which took place before the poll, “clearly amounted to interference with the electoral process and has no legal basis or justification whatsoever,” the parties said.
Boakai and Weah are due to contest the final round for the presidency on November 7 after no single candidate won more than 50 percent of the vote on October 10.
Liberia ruling party contests result of presidential vote
Liberia ruling party contests result of presidential vote
One dead as migrant boat capsizes on Croatia-Bosnia border
- One man died and several other people were missing on Monday after a migrant boat capsized on a river on the Croatia-Bosnia border
ZAGREB: One man died and several other people were missing on Monday after a migrant boat capsized on a river on the Croatia-Bosnia border.
In the early hours, border police in the area of Hrvatska Kostajnica, some 90 kilometers (56 miles) southeast of Zagreb, heard cries for help coming from the Una river, a police statement said.
Police patrols and other emergency services rescued one man from the water but found another man dead, police said.
Rescue crews and police were still searching the river for several other people who had been on board when it flipped.
The passengers were migrants attempting to reach the European Union, a police spokesman told AFP without revealing their nationality.
EU member Croatia is a major transit country for undocumented migrants trying to reach Europe through the Balkans.
In 2025, more than 12,500 Europe-bound migrants took the Balkan route, figures from the EU’s border agency Frontex show.
Since 2014, more than 400 people have been reported dead or missing on the route, according to the International Organization for Migration.
