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Due to accede to Liberia's presidency in January after beating incumbent George Weah by less than 2% Unity Party candidate Joseph Boakai's election victory gives electoral politics a boost in a region with four military governments...
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They are facing Vice-President Joseph Boakai of the Unity Party (UP) with his running mate Senator Jeremiah Koung...
82% of votes counted opposition leader Joseph Nyumah Boakai had a narrow 800-vote lead over President George Weah giving him a 43...
The race for the votes of the also-rans The second round will be a repeat of 2017 when George Weah defeated Joseph Boakai by a 61...
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President George Weah and opposition leader Joseph Boakai were on 43...
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The mood in President George Weah's camp which had been expecting an easy run for a second term has soured since his main rivals Joseph Boakai and Prince Yormie Johnson formed a united front to oppose him in the presidential and legislative elections on 10 October...
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An electoral pact originally involved former Vice-President and UP leader Joseph Boakai Alexander Cummings of the Alternative National Congress (ANC) and Benoni Urey of the All Liberian Party (ALP) but unravelled over who should top the ticket and ended up in law suits (Dispatches 10/5/22 Opposition leader recruits Britain's Cherie Blair to clear his name)...
The chances aren't any better for more experienced opposition leaders like Alexander Cummings of the Alternative National Congress (ANC) Benoni Urey of the All Liberian Party (ALP) and former Vice-President Joseph Boakai leader of Johnson-Sirleaf's old party the Unity Party...
Former vice-president Joseph Nyumah Boakai who lost to Weah in 2017 is the presumed CPP leader supported by millionaire businessman Benoni Urey...
Others said that Weah under pressure from rising inflation and having failed to match his 'pro-poor' rhetoric with substantive action was trying to scapegoat the ex-President who faced blistering attacks from her own Unity Party during the elections allegedly for favouring Weah over her dour Vice-President Joseph Boakai (AC Vol 58 No 21 Weah sprints towards an open goal & Vol 59 No 2 Weah's known unknowns)...
George Oppong Manneh Weah of the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) won such a resounding victory in Liberia's delayed run-off elections on 26 December that his opponent Joseph Nyumah Boakai overruled the hardliners in his party still trying to get the vote overturned and conceded defeat in the most graceful and inspiring speech of a long and tempestuous campaign...
