All Peoples’ Congress presidential candidate Ernest Bai Koroma
FREETOWN. The main opposition in the Sierra Leone election, All Peoples’ Congress (APC) won 59 of the 112 seats in the Parliament, leaving the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) with just 43 seats, down from 83 in the previous assembly.
In the presidential election, early results showed that APCs candidate Ernest Koroma was first with 44 percent ahead of Vice President and SLPP candidate Solomon Berewa with 38 percent. They will go to a second round next month.
Most of the then 5000 international and local observers who watched the poll declared the voting as generally free and transparent. Turnout was a record 75.8 per cent.
The civil war between 1991-2001 to control the diamond fields left around 120 000 dead and many more mutilated.
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