Liberia’s National Elections Commission (NEC) has presented certificate of return to the President-elect, George Weah; Vice President-elect, Jewel Howard-Taylor, and the newly elected members of the House of Representatives.
Chairman of NEC, Jerome Korkoya, performed the ceremony at the commission’s headquarters in Monrovia on Thursday evening and according to local media, 66 out of the 73 elected lawmakers were certificated, leaving out seven who are facing legal challenges over their election results.
The new leaders will be sworn in on January 22, 2018 which is the third working Monday of January as stipulated in the Liberian Constitution.
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