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SIERRA LEONE: Opposition Takeover

SIERRA LEONE: Opposition Takeover Ernest Bai Koroma, wins the second round of the presidential election. Opposition candidate Ernest Bai Koroma has won the second poll round of Sierra Leone's presidential elections and taken over power. This represents the first‐ever opposition victory in the country's history and the 10th in post‐colonial Africa. Mr Koroma represented the opposition All People's Congress ( APC ) party in the close two‐round presidential polls held in August and September in Sierra Leone. The APC frontrunner stood against Solomon Berewa , Sierra Leone's Vice President and candidate of the hitherto ruling Sierra Leone People's Party ( SLPP ). According to the official results announced by the national electoral commissioner Christiana Thorpe on September 17th, opposition leader Koroma won 54.6% of the vote, while the ruling party's contester had polled 45.4%. Mr Koroma was thus declared the next President of Sierra Leone. The opposition victory, following a free, transparent and mostly peaceful election process, somewhat came as a surprise to observers. Sierra Leone is still a reconstructing post‐war country experiencing utmost poverty, and the SLPP regime under outgoing President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah was showing increasing signs of not respecting basic democratic rules. Despite the growing corruption, political violence and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series Wiley

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Wiley
Copyright
Copyright © 2007 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
ISSN
0001-9844
eISSN
1467-825X
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-825X.2007.01257.x
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Abstract

Ernest Bai Koroma, wins the second round of the presidential election. Opposition candidate Ernest Bai Koroma has won the second poll round of Sierra Leone's presidential elections and taken over power. This represents the first‐ever opposition victory in the country's history and the 10th in post‐colonial Africa. Mr Koroma represented the opposition All People's Congress ( APC ) party in the close two‐round presidential polls held in August and September in Sierra Leone. The APC frontrunner stood against Solomon Berewa , Sierra Leone's Vice President and candidate of the hitherto ruling Sierra Leone People's Party ( SLPP ). According to the official results announced by the national electoral commissioner Christiana Thorpe on September 17th, opposition leader Koroma won 54.6% of the vote, while the ruling party's contester had polled 45.4%. Mr Koroma was thus declared the next President of Sierra Leone. The opposition victory, following a free, transparent and mostly peaceful election process, somewhat came as a surprise to observers. Sierra Leone is still a reconstructing post‐war country experiencing utmost poverty, and the SLPP regime under outgoing President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah was showing increasing signs of not respecting basic democratic rules. Despite the growing corruption, political violence and

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Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural SeriesWiley

Published: Oct 1, 2007

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