Liberia’s President-Elect Pledges to Address Economic Hardship
- Boakai declared winner of runoff polls with 50.6% of ballots
- Liberians are battling against rising food and fuel costs
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Liberian opposition leader and president-elect Joseph Boakai has pledged to reunite the country and turn around the economy to end citizens’ hardships.
Boakai, who beat former football star and incumbent George Weah in the country’s closest elections in decades, secured 50.6% of the vote in the Nov. 14 runoff polls, final results released by the National Elections Commission showed. Weah got 49.4%, it said.