Africa-Press – Liberia. <\/strong><\/span>By Robtel Neajai Pailey<\/b><\/p>\nIf Joseph Boakai wins Liberia\u2019s high-stakes presidential run-off on 14 November, he will be taking a page out of US President Joe Biden\u2019s playbook.<\/p>\n
This outcome is very probable given the two elder statesmen\u2019s uncanny similarities.<\/p>\n
Their first names (Joseph) and initials (JB) are identical. With November birthdays separated by two years and ten days, both men have been married since the 1970s and raised four children.<\/p>\n
Boasting decades-long careers in government, Boakai, 78, and Biden, 80, served for two overlapping terms as vice presidents to political titans before launching presidential bids of their own. While Boakai governed for twelve years in the shadow of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberia\u2019s (and Africa\u2019s) first elected woman head of state, Biden assumed a similar role for eight years as second-in-command to Barack Obama, America\u2019s first black president.<\/p>\n
Having both adopted political platforms that center middle- and working-class needs and desires, leading opposition candidate Boakai and so-called \u2018leader of the free world\u2019 Biden are products of nations whose fates remain entangled by histories of slavery, abolition, migration and colonization. As Africa\u2019s first independent republic, Liberia was founded in the mid-19th century by free blacks fleeing racial discrimination and economic servitude in the United States. A \u2018special relationship\u2019 is said to exist between the two countries, yet Liberia\u2019s socio-economic transformation has always been subordinated to America\u2019s strategic interests.<\/p>\n
Although Boakai and Biden come from very different contexts, they represent mirror protagonists in a factual tale about the dangers of clueless megastars, such as current footballer-turned-Liberian-president George Weah and former TV mogul-turned-commander-in-chief of the United States Donald Trump, who have no business in elected office. The two elder statesmen epitomize the steady hand of experience amidst a populist tidal wave sweeping across much of the so-called Global South and North.<\/p>\n
Yet, they are far from perfect. Neither Boakai nor Biden has indicated any ideological devotion to radical reform.<\/p>\n
When asked in a 2017 presidential debate about why he failed to curb Sirleaf\u2019s excesses, Boakai elicited rebuke for admitting that he was a \u2018parked race car\u2019 lacking authority for 12 years. Although the former vice president appears to have no conspicuous skeletons in his closet, he does keep controversial bedfellows. Earlier this year, Boakai countered anxiety about his health by selecting Jeremiah Koung, a younger running mate and recently elected senator from Nimba County, Liberia\u2019s second most populous sub-political division. However, Koung\u2019s alliance with infamous warlord-turned-legislator Prince Yormie Johnson has raised concerns about the ticket\u2019s genuine commitment to war-era criminal accountability.<\/p>\n
Biden\u2019s choice of vice president\u2014Kamala Harris, former senator of electoral-college-rich California\u2014and his 2019 vow to end America\u2019s \u2018forever wars\u2019 have equally come under scrutiny. Despite his many foreign policy mishaps, such as withdrawing US troops prematurely from Afghanistan and bolstering Israel\u2019s disproportionate, genocidal violence against Palestinian civilians in Gaza, Biden has returned a modicum of respectability to the US presidency by defending multilateralism. Following Weah\u2019s six-year irrelevance in international deliberations, it is expected that Boakai will similarly restore Liberia\u2019s prominence in regional bodies such as the African Union, Economic Community of West African States and Mano River Union.<\/p>\n
Having lost to Weah in Liberia\u2019s third post-war presidential run-off in 2017, Boakai embodied the first casualty of his country\u2019s populist turn. Yet, unlike opposition candidates in West Africa who have suffered defeat due to the influence of incumbency, the former vice president garnered enough votes to upset Weah\u2019s attempts at re-election this October. In spite of the Liberian president\u2019s glaring violation of campaign finance regulations, reported by both domestic and international observers, he failed to successfully marshal the power and purse of the presidency to secure a first round landslide.<\/p>\n
This is as much a testament to the ruling party\u2019s polarising rhetoric\u2014in which anyone critical of Weah is branded an \u2018enemy of the state\u2019\u2014as it is indicative of the electorate\u2019s legitimate desire for (regime) change.<\/p>\n
Running neck-and-neck, neither Boakai nor Weah secured the 51% required for outright victory thereby justifying a run-off in mid-November, according to official results announced by Liberia\u2019s National Elections Commission (NEC). However, concerns have been raised about apparent anomalies in vote tallying, forcing the NEC to shield itself from allegations that it manipulated results in Weah\u2019s favor.<\/p>\n
These claims are far from baseless. The electoral referee has, time and time again, demonstrated a lack of neutrality and credibility, prompting some opposition parties to request a forensic audit of the first-round presidential ballot papers.<\/p>\n
Politically immature, Weah\u2019s ruling Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) inspires very little confidence in its ability to govern. The party is notorious for throwing tantrums when it does not get its way. For example, CDC loyalists disrupted and delayed the tallying process in opposition strongholds after the first round of voting last month by attacking precincts in these areas.<\/p>\n
Weah\u2019s tolerance for criminality and corruption as well as his flagrant disregard for the rule of law are reminiscent of Trump\u2019s slash and burn approach to national leadership. As obvious foils to Boakai\u2019s and Biden\u2019s political orthodoxy, Weah and Trump exemplify anti-establishment politicians who manipulate the cult of celebrity to wreak electoral havoc.<\/p>\n
Yet, while America\u2019s checks and balances stopped Trump from running completely amok\u2014landing him in court for ostensibly conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential results, amongst other infractions\u2014similar institutional arrangements do not exist in practice in Liberia where the supremacy of the presidency is all-consuming.<\/p>\n
If Weah and Trump succeed in their re-election efforts, it will be more of the same shenanigans. It is no surprise, then, that Boakai has vowed to \u2018rescue\u2019 Liberia from Weah\u2019s abysmal performance by focussing on the socio-economic issues that are of utmost importance to voters\u2014poverty, unemployment, inflation, infrastructure, rule of law, peace and security, basic social services, etc.<\/p>\n
Ahead of what is expected to be a contentious run-off, he has actively sought support from opposition candidates with overtures to join a Unity Party Alliance against the ruling CDC. It is clear that any opposition candidate who feigns neutrality will be indirectly backing Weah\u2019s re-election.<\/p>\n
As my previous research has indicated, the Liberian electorate consistently votes for candidates they presume will deliver public goods rather than politicians who merely serve their own interests. With 11 out of 15 incumbent senators ousted and a slew of representatives loyal to the ruling party ejected in October\u2019s legislative races, what seems to be the only constant in Liberia\u2019s post-war politics is a visceral rejection of the status quo.<\/p>\n
If Boakai reduces Weah to a one-term president this month, he will be replicating what Biden did to Trump exactly three years ago.<\/p>\n
Source: Liberian Observer<\/b><\/p>\n
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