President George Weah and his rival James Boakai are set for rerun November 7. At the last count of the October 10th presidential election, Weah holds a slim lead with 43.79% while Boakai has 43.49% of the votes. The other 18 candidates have less than 3% of the votes, after 98% of the votes have been counted. According to Liberia’s election law, a president can only emerge with a minimum of 50% of the votes, and thus a rerun will hold. The rerun will be a repeat of the 2017 elections with a result of 61.5% and 38.5% for Weah and Boakai, respectively. In that year, the first-round result of 38.4% for Weah shows that he did better in the first round this time, but not as much as Boakai improved on his first round performance then when he got 28.8% of the vote
