... Montserrado by-election to cost US$1.2 million
by Jay Nagbe Sloh
Managing Editor
Philadelphia, 10/13/09 (SIS) - The United States branch of the opposition Liberian People's Party (LPP) has unanimously endorsed Professor Wilson Kargioh Tarpeh, the candidate jointly being fielded by LPP and the United People's Party (UPP), in the ensuing Montserrado County senatorial by-election, slated for November 10, 2009. Tarpeh faces 11 other candidates, including former presidential contender Alhaji Gohee Vamuyan Kromah.
The branch says it will work closely with its mother party in Liberia and Professor Tarpeh's campaign committee - within the confines of the Elections Law and Constitution of Liberia - to ensure victory for the candidate.
U.S.-based LPP partisans have been holding meetings and plotting strategies to ensure victory for Tarpeh, who finished 4th for the same Monstserrado senatorial election in 2005. LPP-USA spokesman George Hina Willie Kpator says another LPP teleconference meeting is scheduled for this Friday, October 17, 2009, to put finishing touches to their action plan in support of Professor Tarpeh.
The National Elections Commission (NEC), working with key international partners, will conducting a by-election to fill the vacancy created in the Liberian Senate by the death of junior senator Hannah G. Brent.
Montserrado, currently Liberia's most populous county, has a territorial area of 737 square miles (1,909 square kilometers). It has 14 electoral districts, 496,508 registered voters, 280 voting precincts, and 989 polling places.
NEC say's the ensuing Montserrado by-election will cost 1.2 million United States dollars.
NEC has two magisterial areas in Montserrado. Messrs. Vopea Gongloe and James Cordor are the Elections Magistrates the county.
by Jay Nagbe Sloh
Managing Editor
Philadelphia, 10/13/09 (SIS) - The United States branch of the opposition Liberian People's Party (LPP) has unanimously endorsed Professor Wilson Kargioh Tarpeh, the candidate jointly being fielded by LPP and the United People's Party (UPP), in the ensuing Montserrado County senatorial by-election, slated for November 10, 2009. Tarpeh faces 11 other candidates, including former presidential contender Alhaji Gohee Vamuyan Kromah.
The branch says it will work closely with its mother party in Liberia and Professor Tarpeh's campaign committee - within the confines of the Elections Law and Constitution of Liberia - to ensure victory for the candidate.
U.S.-based LPP partisans have been holding meetings and plotting strategies to ensure victory for Tarpeh, who finished 4th for the same Monstserrado senatorial election in 2005. LPP-USA spokesman George Hina Willie Kpator says another LPP teleconference meeting is scheduled for this Friday, October 17, 2009, to put finishing touches to their action plan in support of Professor Tarpeh.
The National Elections Commission (NEC), working with key international partners, will conducting a by-election to fill the vacancy created in the Liberian Senate by the death of junior senator Hannah G. Brent.
Montserrado, currently Liberia's most populous county, has a territorial area of 737 square miles (1,909 square kilometers). It has 14 electoral districts, 496,508 registered voters, 280 voting precincts, and 989 polling places.
NEC say's the ensuing Montserrado by-election will cost 1.2 million United States dollars.
NEC has two magisterial areas in Montserrado. Messrs. Vopea Gongloe and James Cordor are the Elections Magistrates the county.
Since 2005, NEC has conducted five by-elections to fill in vacancies in the House of Representatives and two senatorial by-elections. This is the third senatorial by-election since 2005.
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