Liberia: ‘It’s Not the Business of the Legislature to Engineer Election Magistrate Employment’ – Deputy Speaker

Monrovia — The Liberian Senate’s amendment to the New Election law that declares all election magistrates’ seats vacant after 90-days have been met with a stiff resistance by the second highest ranking member of the House of Representatives – Deputy Speaker J. Fonati Koffa.

The House had sent the amended version of the law to the Senate for concurrence, but the Senate made several amendments to the House’s version including the portion relieving all election magistrates from their posts within…