LEON commends all Liberians for the peaceful conduct of elections and cautions politicians and political commentators against making inciting comments or actions that could derail the progre
LEON is concerned about the increasing tension and high number of incidents in these elections compared to 2017. LEON expresses concern over the seizer of ballot boxes from four polling plac
LEON has been conducting Social Media monitoring of 51 key Facebook sites of politicians, commentators and government entities since March 2020. Sites are monitored for their own content but
LEON is deeply concerned that, of the 118 Candidates nominated to the National Election Commission for the Senatorial elections only 20 are women, just 17%. This falls far short of ade
The General Public, members of the Press, Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen. Liberia Elections Observation Network (LEON) has several major concerns on the conduct of the voter registration
The General Public, Members of the Press, Distinguished Ladies, and Gentlemen. The Liberia Elections Observation Network (LEON) welcomes the start of the voter registration update which comm
The General Public, members of the Press, Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen. Liberia Elections Observation Network (LEON) has observed with disdain absence of women candidates in primaries
Following the 2017 elections international and national observer groups, including LEON, made recommendations, many of which echoed similar themes and require changes to the New Elections La
This statement is based on the observations of the LEON 8-member core team and 3 Long Term Observers, one in each electoral district, who have been working since the start of the campaign. L
LEON has not observed any major irregularities so far in today’s re-run election in Logan town, district 15, despite underlying tensions caused by the lamentable recent waves of violence.&
