Sirleaf wins disputed Liberian election

Liberia's Nobel Peace Prize-winning president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has been confirmed as victor of a run-off poll boycotted by the opposition.

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Liberia's Nobel Peace Prize-winning president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has been confirmed as victor of a run-off poll boycotted by the opposition, with only 37.4 per cent voter turnout.

The National Elections Commission said that with results tallied from 86.6 per cent of polling stations, Sirleaf won 90.8 per cent of votes cast and her rival, Winston Tubman, who pulled out of the election and urged supporters to boycott it, won nine per cent.

The re-elected Sirleaf vowedon Thursday to reach out to her opponents.

"I will reach out to all the presidential candidates. What I will offer them is not yet known because I haven't really focused on organising the government," she told reporters in Monrovia.

Sirleaf said she had brought several opposition politicians into government since her first electoral victory in 2005.

The country's second post-war polls were marred by a deadly police shooting against opposition supporters on the eve of Tuesday's run-off.

Final results were expected on Friday.


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