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LIBERIA

11/17/2023

Bokai elected president

Weah concedes defeat in runoff voting. He won 49% of the vote to Bokai’s 51%.

10/24/2023

Weah wins 43.84% of the vote and Bokai 43.44%. They will oppose each other in a runoff 11/14.

10/10/2023

Voting begins in presidential and legislative elections. Weah has nineteen opposing candidates and is likely to face one in a runoff in 11/23. 78-year-old former vice president Joseph Boakai is Weah’s primary opponent. He has forged alliances, including with former warlord and senator Prince Johnson, who has threatened a popular revolt if the ruling party manipulates the elections.

01/29/2023

Weah says he will run for president again this year. Liberia’s economy is in poor shape, and Weah has nothing little to stem endemic corruption in the country. The US has sanctioned three members of Weah’s government for corruption.

12/15/2020

Results of 12/8 constitutional referendum announced. Voters approved the changes, which limit the head of state’s term and allow for dual citizenship. In the Senate elections the same day, the opposition won 15 of 30 seats. In Weah’s stronghold, one of his fiercest opponents, Sen. Darius Dillon, won 61% of the vote. Weah’s approval has dropped, as he has failed to improve the economy.

04/17/2020

Legislature approves state of emergency and extends it to sixty days.

03/16/2020

Liberia confirms its first case of COVID-19.

09/21/2018

$100 million in newly minted currency is discovered to have gone missing during the election last year. Liberia does not have its own mint and the currency was printed in Sweden.

01/29/2018

At inauguration, Weah cuts his salary by a quarter and proposes changing the constitution to allow foreigners to become citizens, and to eliminate the restriction that “only people of colour” can become Liberian and own property.

01/14/2018

Unity Party expels Pres Johnson Sirleaf for interfering with 2017 presidential elections. Other party members were also expelled.

12/28/2017

George Weah is elected president

Weah is elected president with 61% of the vote.

12/27/2017

Presidential run-off in Liberia.

12/07/2017

Supreme Court dismisses fraud allegations about election, affirming the runoff between Weah and Boakai.

11/06/2017

Supreme Court delays runoff until voting fraud investigation is completed.