2023-11-21 19:43:21
It was on the evening of Monday, September 20, 2023, that the results of the 2023 presidential election were announced. Challenger Joseph Boakai obtained 50.64% while outgoing President Georges Mannet Weah collected 40.36%. But from Friday November 17, the loser, very sportingly and with a lot of fair play, congratulated the winner before inviting his supporters to calm and serenity. A magnificent gesture of both democracy and humility to which those who populate the ebony continent are unusual.
Not only did Mr. Georges Mannet Weah not stubbornly seek to undermine the electoral process with stratagems widespread in Africa, but asked his activists to accept the verdict of the ballot boxes and avoid unrest. Neither he himself nor the leaders of his party and allied groups have made any outrageous warmongering remarks. All things carrying the seeds of serious post-electoral conflicts whose catastrophic consequences we know.
It must be said that the Liberian case is exemplary. For a decade, Liberians suffered the horrors of a terrible civil war. They don’t want to (or can’t) play with fire. ” Scalded cat fears cold water “. Also, is the former Liberian President not accustomed to glory? He paraded in the firmament of world football. He is the golden ball. His gesture is an invaluable contribution to the promotion, consolidation and entrenchment of democracy. It must now inspire the political class in Africa.
The organization of this Liberian presidential election must be the model that the Electoral Management Bodies (EMBs) should follow, which, ultimately, we do not see the independence of, as they are so subservient to the powers in place. They are simply a clear failure. Demanded by the opposition parties, they have everywhere become the scarecrow, during the electoral processes, of these same parties. EMBs almost always act in collusion with the presidential majority at the expense of the opposition. If the Liberian example prospers, democracy and transparent and fair voting will have made a prodigious leap in the African tropics. And Mister Georges Mannet Weah will have obtained his second golden ball!
Abraham Kayoko Dore
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