President George Weah of Liberia has been defeated in the second round of voting in his country’s presidential election held on Tuesday.
With 99.58 per cent of votes from the country’s 5,890 polling places counted, it is all but clear that former Vice President Joseph Boakai and candidate of the Unity Party has taken an unassailable lead.
Mr Boakai has so far garnered 814,212 votes of the available 1,625,684 votes, compared to the 785,778 scored by Mr Weah of the ruling Coalition for Democratic Change. Turnout at the election stands at 65.77 per cent.
As of 4 pm Friday, the former vice president led George Weah with 28, 434 votes. The total ballot outstanding for counting is 25,694, meaning that the former footballer cannot catch up with Mr Boakai even if he gets all the pending votes.
