Sierra Leone: Opposition Takes Power

allAfrica.com

NEWS
17 September 2007
Posted to the web 17 September 2007


Sierra Leone's opposition All People's Congress (APC) has taken power by 
winning both presidential and parliamentary elections.

National Electoral Commission officials have confirmed that the APC's 
candidate, Ernest Bai Koroma, has prevailed in the country's presidential 
election, agencies reported today.


Reports from the BBC and Reuters quoted the commission as saying Koroma had 
won 54.6 percent of the vote, against Vice-President Solomon Berewa's 45.4 
percent.

The APC won the parliamentary election last month. Koroma received the 
highest number of votes in the first round of presidential balloting, but 
not enough to secure election in one round. He and Berewa, the candidate of 
the ruling Sierra Leone People's Party, faced off in a second round on 
September 8.

Berewa was the chosen successor of President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah, who is 
stepping down after serving the maximum two terms as head of state. He went 
into the race the favourite.

Koroma has never held elective office. He was resoundingly beaten by Kabbah 
in the last election in 2002. However, he is seen by observers as having 
benefited from the government's failure to deliver social services. The APC 
made substantial gains in local government elections in 2004.

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