{"id":230097,"date":"2026-04-11T02:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-lpp-backs-weedor-nomination-urges-electoral-reforms\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T02:21:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:21:00","slug":"liberia-lpp-backs-weedor-nomination-urges-electoral-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-lpp-backs-weedor-nomination-urges-electoral-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: LPP Backs Weedor Nomination, Urges Electoral Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The Liberian People&#8217;s Party (LPP) has welcomed the nomination of Jonathan K. Weedor as Chairperson of the National Elections Commission (NEC), expressing confidence in his ability to restore public trust in Liberia&#8217;s electoral system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">In a statement issued following President Joseph Nyuma Boakai&#8217;s March 30 nomination of Weedor, the LPP described him as &#8220;the most suitable candidate&#8221; to lead the Commission at a time of heightened scrutiny over its operations. The vacancy arose after the resignation&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604100519.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Liberian People&#8217;s Party (LPP) has welcomed the nomination of Jonathan K. Weedor as Chairperson of the National Elections Commission (NEC), expressing confidence in his ability to restore public trust in Liberia&#8217;s electoral system. In a statement issued following President Joseph Nyuma Boakai&#8217;s March 30 nomination of Weedor, the LPP described him as &#8220;the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":230098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,7102,7239,4712,1107,54131,257,9072,7580,254,6810,54132],"class_list":["post-230097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-backs","tag-electoral","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-lpp","tag-news","tag-nomination","tag-reforms","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urges","tag-weedor"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}