Liberia’s electoral commission chief says the body has fixed the delayed presidential run-off vote for December 26, 2017.
The poll, which was held up for several weeks by a court challenge by the candidate who came third in round one, will see former football star George Weah square up against Vice-President Joseph Boakai.
The winner will take over from Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf as president in what will be, if it goes smoothly, Liberia’s first peaceful handover of power in 70 years.
The Supreme Court on Dec. 7, dismissed a complaint from third-place finisher Charles Brumskine’s Liberty Party, which had said fraudulent practices had undermined the first round in October.
Electoral commission chairman Jerome Korkoya said campaigning can start immediately but must end by December 24.
Nobel Peace Prize-winning Johnson-Sirleaf’s 12-year rule stabilised a nation that had been savagely destroyed by war; bringing sanity to a war-torn nation.
