LIBERIA: Vote counting started as polls closed after peaceful election, results expected within 15 days according to Liberia's electoral law

Record ID: 327628

  • Title: LIBERIA: Vote counting started as polls closed after peaceful election, results expected within 15 days according to Liberia's electoral law
  • Date: 12th October 2011
  • Summary: MONROVIA, LIBERIA (OCTOBER 11, 2011) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF ELECTORAL AGENTS EMPTYING BALLOT BOX OBSERVERS WATCHING WITH ELECTORAL AGENTS IN FOREGROUND VARIOUS OF OBSERVERS WATCHING ELECTORAL AGENTS UNFOLD BALLOT BOXES VARIOUS OF OBERVERS TAKING NOTES AND ELECTORAL STAFF COUNTING VARIOUS OF ELECTORAL AGENTS GOING THROUGH THE VOTES ON THE GROUND OBSERVERS WATCHING VOTES BEING COUNTED
  • Embargoed: 27th October 2011 13:00
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  • Location: Liberia, Liberia
  • Country: Liberia
  • Topics: Conflict,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA7FWMDWQ0IQLX1U2WPTEROB5BR
  • Story Text: Liberians wrapped up a peaceful presidential election on Tuesday (October 11) -- the West African state's second since a civil war -- though worries remained that the results could spark street clashes.
    The vote pitted newly named Nobel peace laureate President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf against former U.N. diplomat Winston Tubman and 14 others, and came as investors planned to sink billions of dollars into the country's mining and oil sectors.
    Voters queued calmly, at times under pouring rain, to cast their ballots, and international election observers said they had received no reports of problems at the nation's polling stations.
    Passions have run high in the contest that some forecast will go to a second-round run-off between Johnson-Sirleaf and Tubman. The results of the first-round vote are expected within 15 days according to Liberia's electoral law.
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