Liberia’s ruling party is challenging the results of the first round of presidential elections, in which its candidate was declared the runner-up.
The Unity Party along with two other parties have accused incumbent President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of interfering with the results of the October 10 election.
The ruling party says she acted inappropriately by meeting privately with the election magistrates before the vote.
The parties say they will still take part in the runoff election scheduled for November 7, but they hope the court could rule before then.
“It doesn’t mean we will not take part in the (run-off),” Augustine Ngafuan, Unity Party’s national campaign chairman, told Reuters. “We hope the court can rule before the run-off. If not, we will decide what next to do.”
The run-off poll will be a duel between Former footballer George Weah and Vice President Joseph Boakai.
Weah won the first round with 38.4 percent of the vote to Boakai’s 28.8 percent. Last week, he won the endorsement of former warlord Prince Johnson, who won 8 percent of the vote in the first round.
International observers from the European Union, the Carter Center and the National Democratic Institute have said they saw no major problems with the vote.
