Liberian President George Weah says will seek second term this year

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MONROVIA, Jan 31 ― Liberia's President George Weah yesterday told parliament he would run for reelection this year after a first term marred with graft allegations and...

MONROVIA, Jan 31 ― Liberia's President George Weah yesterday told parliament he would run for reelection this year after a first term marred with graft allegations and economic downturn.

“I will be coming to you shortly to ask you to renew my term, a mandate that you give me six years ago,” he said in parliament on Monday, vowing to pursue transformation, growth and peace.Weah, a former international football star who rose to fame from a slum in Monrovia, clinched a landslide run-off victory in the last general election in 2017 on the back of support from young people and the poor.

But he rapidly faced the same criticisms. In 2018, a graft scandal in which Liberia lost $100 million in newly printed central bank notes sparked widespread allegations of misuse of public funds within Weah's administration.

 

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