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Africa-Press – Liberia. <\/strong><\/span>The National Campaign Management Team of Julius Kanubah and Beatrice Sieh for the Leadership of the Press Union of Liberia says the 2023 presidential and legislative elections have shown that integrity matters for the legitimacy of electoral outcomes.<\/p>\n

Team Kanubah\u2013Sieh believes without electoral integrity it would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible, for incumbent President George Weah to gracefully concede defeat hours before the final results of the November 14, 2023, presidential run-off election were announced by the National Elections Commission.<\/p>\n

Moreover, electoral integrity ensured that the opposition did not do anything to undermine the legitimacy of the electoral outcome and democratic stability of Liberia in the wake of a provocative campaign statement by then opposition leader and now President\u2013Elect Joseph Boakai that \u201cif the elections are stolen by the ruling party, it would be the end of Liberia.\u2019<\/p>\n

The Campaign Team of Kanubah\u2013Sieh views the integrity demonstrated in the processes leading to the conduct of the 2023 elections as a turning point and shining example that is seriously worth emulating in the Press Union of Liberia, which has a troubled history of electoral fraud in the last four years.<\/p>\n

On two occasions, the PUL erstwhile incumbent leadership of Charles Coffey, Daniel Nyakonah, and lately with Musa Kenneh and Akoi Baysah failed to ensure a credible electoral process, thereby undermining the legitimacy and democratic stability of the Union, leading to the ongoing conflict.<\/p>\n

The Coffey\u2013Nyakonah former leadership is notorious for acts of electoral fraud through the pilling up of the PUL Membership Register with ineligible Liberian journalists and non-journalists in a bid to steal elections and entrench themselves in the PUL leadership despite extremely poor performances.<\/p>\n

As the people of Liberia have shown the PUL how to conduct and ensure a democratically peaceful and credible electoral process based on integrity, Team Kanubah\u2013Sieh extends congratulations to:<\/p>\n

The Kanubah\u2013Sieh Campaign Team emphasizes that it remains committed to pursuing the rule of law to ensure a democratic, legitimate elected leadership at the PUL as the best path to reconciliation rather than endorsing the continuation of fraud by individuals who chose to disregard the PUL Constitution and the Majority Membership by holding midnight election based on a fraudulent membership register.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Liberia. The National Campaign Management Team of Julius Kanubah and Beatrice Sieh for the Leadership of the Press Union of Liberia says the 2023 presidential and legislative elections have shown that integrity matters for the legitimacy of electoral outcomes. 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