{"id":12146,"date":"2023-11-21T06:30:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T01:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/opposition-candidate-officially-declared-liberias-president-elect-after-incumbent-concedes\/"},"modified":"2023-11-21T06:30:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T01:00:47","slug":"opposition-candidate-officially-declared-liberias-president-elect-after-incumbent-concedes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/opposition-candidate-officially-declared-liberias-president-elect-after-incumbent-concedes\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition candidate officially declared Liberia\u2019s president-elect after incumbent concedes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Election officials in Liberia on Monday formally declared Joseph Boakai the president-elect, three days after incumbent George Weah conceded defeat based on the runoff vote’s provisional results.<\/p>\n

According to the National Elections Commission, Boakai won with 50.64% of the second round balloting while Weah took 49.36%.<\/p>\n

“We are at the point where we will prepare for transition, begin the plan for inauguration, as we jump-start the activities of governance,” Boakai, 78, a former vice president, said moments after he was officially pronounced the winner.<\/p>\n

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Weah, a former international soccer star, has earned praise in the West African country and abroad for his decision to concede defeat rather than challenge the outcome in court.<\/p>\n

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Then-candidate Joseph Boakai arrives to vote in Monrovia, Liberia, Nov. 14, 2023.<\/span> (AP Photo\/Rami Malek)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

“This is a time for graciousness in defeat, a time to place our country above party, and patriotism above personal interest,” Weah said in his concession speech late Friday. He has said his political career is not yet over.<\/p>\n

In 2017, Weah easily defeated Boakai in the second round with 60% of the ballots cast. However, his popularity later fell with Liberia’s mounting economic problems.<\/p>\n

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Elsewhere, there have been growing concerns about the decline of democracy in West Africa. The region has seen a spate of military coups over the last several years, including one in Gabon earlier this year in the aftermath of a presidential election.a<\/p>\n

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