Winston Tubman, Liberia's main opposition candidate, has withdrawn a demand for a recount of the presidential poll and said he will take part in a runoff. Tubman made his announcement after election authorities declared on Sunday that no candidate had obtained an absolute majority.
A group of nine Liberian opposition parties had earlier asked the West African nation's election commission to recount the votes of the first-round poll, alleging fraud in the results announced so far.
Latest results announced on Sunday showed that newly named Nobel Peace laureate Johnson Sirleaf was leading with 44 per cent of the votes, ahead of Tubman of the CDC party, on 32.2 per cent with 1,162,729 valid votes and 96 per cent of votes counted.
Read the whole story on AlJazeera, posted 17 October
Winston Tubman, Liberia's main opposition candidate, has withdrawn a demand for a recount of the presidential poll and said he will take part in a runoff. Tubman made his announcement after election authorities declared on Sunday that no candidate had obtained an absolute majority.
A group of nine Liberian opposition parties had earlier asked the West African nation's election commission to recount the votes of the first-round poll, alleging fraud in the results announced so far.
Latest results announced on Sunday showed that newly named Nobel Peace laureate Johnson Sirleaf was leading with 44 per cent of the votes, ahead of Tubman of the CDC party, on 32.2 per cent with 1,162,729 valid votes and 96 per cent of votes counted.
Read the whole story on AlJazeera, posted 17 October