Liberia Must Embrace Electoral Reforms Ahead Of 2023 Elections
Liberia Must Embrace Electoral Reforms Ahead Of 2023 Elections
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THE AFTERMATH of the December 2020 Senatorial Midterm elections has dealt a major blow to Liberia’s electoral system and put the constitution on the brink of a costly deletion that could take years to recover from.
THE CONSTITUTION of Liberia which is the supreme and fundamental law of Liberia has a binding force and effect on all authorities and persons throughout the Republic. Nevertheless, the aftermath of the elections has seen long delays and bottlenecks surrounding the certification of candidates who won disputed elections.
Liberia: Sen. Varney Sherman Proposes Amendments to The New Elections Law to Shorten the Period for Hearing Dispute in Presidential Election
Liberia: Sen. Varney Sherman Proposes Amendments to The New Elections Law to Shorten the Period for Hearing Dispute in Presidential Election
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Cllr. Varney Sherman is recommending that the new Elections Law should be amended to provide that the Board of Commissioners shall have original jurisdiction over the presidential election dispute and an appeal from the Board of Commissioners shall lie with the Supreme Court.
MONROVIA – Senator Varney Sherman (Grand Cape Mount County, UP) is proposing an amendment to Section 4.8 of the New Elections Law that would allow the National Elections Commission and Supreme Court to take shorter time to hear and adjudicate elections dispute cases in shorter periods.
Liberia: The Liberian Government Must Get to The Bottom of OFAC Accusations Regarding Sen. Varney Sherman’s Bribery in Judiciary Branch
Liberia: The Liberian Government Must Get to The Bottom of OFAC Accusations Regarding Sen. Varney Sherman’s Bribery in Judiciary Branch
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THE TREND of the three-minute presentation of each Senator at the Senate Sitting of last Thursday, February 4, 2021, in reaction to the Preliminary Report of the Senate Leadership on the Submission of January 11, 2021 and the First Supplementary Submission made by Senator Counsellor Varney Sherman to the Liberian Senate on the OFAC Sanctions against him give reason to the concern that some Senators misinterpret the intention of Senator Sherman’s Submissions to them.
Sen (Cllr) Sherman: Sanctions have devastated my reputation.
Senator Varney Sherman has opined that the US government’s imposed sanctions against him based on allegation and “unfounded theory,” has damaged his livelihood and business.
Sen. Sherman, whose reaction comes amid a report of the Financial Intelligence Unit requesting banks to temporarily freeze his financial assets, lamented that said financial and economic sanctions against him have virtually destroyed his law practice; as most of his clients now have terminated attorney-client relationships.
“Some of the clients started with me when I established the law firm in July 1989, and have continued with me through thick and thin until the imposition of these sanctions,” Sen. Sherman said. “Accordingly, I have relieved my partners, staff lawyers and ordinary staffers from their obligations to Sherman and Sherman, and to me personally.”