Liberia declares Boakai as winner of presidential election

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Liberia declares Boakai as winner of presidential election

STORY: Liberia declares Boakai as winner of presidential election SHOOTING TIME: Nov. 20, 2023 DATELINE: Nov. 22, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:51 LOCATION: Monrovia CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of street view in Monrovia 2. various of NEC announcing the winner of the election 3. various of supporters of Joseph Boakai STORYLINE: Liberia's National Elections Commission (NEC) on Monday evening formally declared Joseph Boakai, leader of the country's main opposition party, as the winner of the 2023 presidential election. Davidetta Lansanah, head of the NEC, made the announcement during a press conference at its headquarters in Monrovia, the national capital. With 100 percent of the votes from all 5,890 polling places across Liberia's 15 counties counted, Boakai, the candidate of the opposition Unity Party and former vice president of the West African country, garnered 814,481 votes, or 50.64 percent of the vote, compared with 793,914, or 49.36 percent, for Weah, the leader of the ruling Coalition for

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