Penalty shoot out

Soccer star George Weah kept his election lead and the dealmakers are hard at work

In the second round of the presidential election, due on 8 November, Liberians must choose between ex-AC Milan striker George Manneh Opong Weah and former United Nations Development Programme official and banker Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. With 95 per cent of the votes counted from the first round on 11 October, soccer star George Weah was ahead with 28.8 per cent and Johnson-Sirleaf second with 20 per cent. International observers (and most Liberians) thought the poll free and fair but that hasn't stopped third-placed lawyer Charles Walker Brumskine (13.9 per cent) from contesting the results.

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