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Titolo: WEAH PRESIDENTE DELLA LIBERIA

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Monrovia, Thursday
Early results from Liberia's first post-war elections showed on Thursday 
that soccer star George Weah and former Finance Minister Ellen 
Johnson-Sirleaf may face a second-round run-off.
Two days after Tuesday's landmark presidential and parliamentary polls, 
results trickled in agonisingly slowly from a vote intended to draw a 
line under the West African country's brutal 14-year civil war.
As each piecemeal result was announced by local radio, residents in the 
crumbling capital Monrovia sent up loud cheers, women danced on the 
streets and taxis honked their horns.
With official results in from only 278 of the 3,070 polling stations, 
former AC Milan striker Weah lead the field of 22 presidential hopefuls 
with 23.7 percent of the vote, ahead of Harvard-trained economist 
Johnson-Sirleaf with 14.9 percent.
"With the current trend, it is likely that there will be a second 
round," National Elections Commission chief Frances Johnson-Morris told 
reporters.
Electoral officials have said a final result could take between three 
and seven days. If no candidate gains more than 50 percent, a run-off 
will be held no more than two weeks later.
If 66-year-old grandmother Johnson-Sirleaf wins, she would become 
Africa's first elected female president.
"I am sure there will be a second round. The race is just not clear. We 
keep seeing different people rising," said Simeon Tyler, a 34-year-old 
security guard. "It will be very difficult for anyone to get over 50 
percent."
Some newspapers reported Johnson-Sirleaf in the lead, others put Weah 
ahead and still others said the contest would go to a second round.
Electoral chief Johnson-Morris cautioned voters against proclaiming a 
victory too soon.
"People ... are thinking a person has won, but we still have a long way 
to go," she said. "We know the public are anxious ... I can understand, 
most of our people are illiterate".
Liberians hope the polls will cement stability two years after a war 
that killed a quarter of a million people, uprooted almost a third of 
the population and left the country's infrastructure in ruins.
Weah, 39, is expected to do well in Monrovia, where he grew up and his 
well-funded campaign has drawn huge crowds. His support in the rest of 
the country is untested as he has no established party machine behind him.
Some question whether the soccer star has the qualifications and 
political experience to be president. His supporters retort that 
Harvard-trained professionals such as Johnson-Sirleaf have done little 
to help ordinary Liberians in the past two decades.
Both have said they would work together whoever wins and have pledged to 
make reconstruction their priority, restoring running water and mains 
electricity.
The shadow of exiled former President Charles Taylor, who triggered the 
civil war in 1989 and is seen as the mastermind of several West African 
conflicts, hangs over the polls.
A prosecutor for a UN-backed court in Sierra Leone, where Taylor is 
wanted for war crimes, said last week he had evidence the former warlord 
was supporting candidates.
One of the presidential hopefuls represents Taylor's National Patriotic 
Party. — Reuters

 Johnson-Sirleaf may face a second-round run-off.
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Baygon ha scritto:
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e chi ti dice che il sig. weah non mi stia simpatico, piccolo scarafone?

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