{"id":105685,"date":"2020-12-12T14:47:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T06:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=105685"},"modified":"2020-12-12T14:52:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T06:52:45","slug":"liberia-senate-election-opposition-candidates-lead-in-early-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=105685","title":{"rendered":"Liberia senate election: Opposition candidates lead in early results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

MONROVIA, Dec 12 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) — Provisional results from LIberia’s Special Senatorial elections have put four candidates from the opposition Collaborating Political Parties (CPP) in an early significant lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The results are seen as a big blow to President George Weah’s ruling party the Congress for Democratic Change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Elections Commission on Thursday announced preliminary results from eight counties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking at a Press conference, chairperson of the National Elections Commission (NEC), Davidetta Brown Lansannah said, the results were from Bong, Nimba, Montserrado, Maryland, Grand Cape Mount, Grand Bassa, Margibi, and Gbapolu Counties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said \u201cThe Liberian people can be rest assured that the Commission will accurately announce the results of the election as expressed by the people through the ballot box.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mid-term elections are seen as a test of support for Weah, a former football icon who has faced criticism as president over persisting economic problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The opposition is also leading in the country’s largest county, Montserrado, which is home to the capital Monrovia, as well as most of the voters in the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday\u2019s election is regarded to have been peaceful in most parts of the West African country as 2.2 million registered voters went to the polls to elect 15 senators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The elections occurred alongside a referendum on reducing presidential terms and allowing dual nationality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The full results are expected to be announced within two weeks. — NNN-AFRICANEWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MONROVIA, Dec 12 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) — Provisional results from LIberia’s Special Senatorial elections have put four candidates from the opposition Collaborating Political Parties (CPP) in an early significant lead. The results are seen as a big blow to President George Weah’s ruling party the Congress for Democratic Change. The Elections Commission on Thursday announced preliminary results […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105685"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}