Africa's first and only female president handily won re-election with 90.2 per cent of the vote, but her victory has been rendered hollow and her government may struggle to prove its legitimacy because the opposition boycotted the poll.
Hours before the results were announced on Thursday, in an election that was supposed to solidify Liberia's shaky peace, opposition leader Winston Tubman said he would not accept the outcome of this week's presidential run-off.
With nearly nine-tenths of precincts reporting, National Election Commission chair Elizabeth Nelson announced late Thursday that Sirleaf had received 513,320 votes out of 565,391 tallied. Only 52,071 ballots, or 9.2 per cent, had been cast for Tubman, a former United Nations diplomat who, like Sirleaf, was educated at Harvard University.
Read more on Al Jazeera, published 10 Nov
Africa's first and only female president handily won re-election with 90.2 per cent of the vote, but her victory has been rendered hollow and her government may struggle to prove its legitimacy because the opposition boycotted the poll.
Hours before the results were announced on Thursday, in an election that was supposed to solidify Liberia's shaky peace, opposition leader Winston Tubman said he would not accept the outcome of this week's presidential run-off.
With nearly nine-tenths of precincts reporting, National Election Commission chair Elizabeth Nelson announced late Thursday that Sirleaf had received 513,320 votes out of 565,391 tallied. Only 52,071 ballots, or 9.2 per cent, had been cast for Tubman, a former United Nations diplomat who, like Sirleaf, was educated at Harvard University.
Read more on Al Jazeera, published 10 Nov