Liberia: Is It Time for By-Elections?

Imagine hiring a group of people to do a job and that group of people spends an entire month doing anything else but the job they were hired to do — all while demanding full salary for the time. Would you cut their pay, fire them, or both?

The ongoing crisis within Liberia’s House of Representatives is not very different and raises an urgent question: should lawmakers who deliberately and unconstitutionally refuse to attend sessions be replaced? This question takes us directly to Article 48 of…