The Board of Commissioners of Liberia’s National Elections Commission (NEC) has upheld Tuesday’s ruling of NEC Dispute Hearing Officer which dismissed complaints of fraud against the October 10 presidential elections. “The Supreme Court has defined fraud as the employment of trick, artifice or deception to cheat or mislead another. Lawyers representing the two political parties (UP and LP) said they would take an appeal to the Supreme Court, according to local media. By the provision of Article 83 of the Liberian Constitution, the aggrieved parties have seven days to file their appeal to the Supreme Court. On October 31, the Supreme Court issued a stay order on the runoff presidential elections earlier slated for Nov. 7, pending the outcome of NEC’s hearing into the complaints.

Source: GNN Liberia November 25, 2017 17:19 UTC