Liberia: President Sirleaf Meets Forum of Political Parties ... - AllAfrica.com

President Ellen Samuel Johnson Sirleaf states she is committed to retention mayoral elections in Republic Of Liberia in October 2008. She have assured that she will not go against the rule of elections.

The President gave the self-assurance today at the Foreign Ministry when she met with the Forum of Political Parties Association in Liberia. The meeting, which focused on issues of national concern, was characterized by a blunt exchange of views.

The Liberian leader emphasized that it is her desire to have got a constitutional alteration which would take to the election of overseers and expressed her concern about the proliferation of metropolises in Liberia. The President additional revealed that the issue of shade workers in Liberia's civil service stays a major challenge, stating that 17,000 shade name calling were recently discovered on government's payroll.

For his part, the leader of the Forum of the Political Parties in Liberia, Mr. Nyandeh Sieh, expressed the group's willingness to have got the lawsuit brought upon the Government of Republic Of Republic Of Republic Of Liberia by the Autonomy Party and the United States Congress for Democratic Change over the assignment of an Acting Mayor of Zwedru taken out of court. He further stressed that his grouping would go forth no rock unturn in holding a forum to enable both political parties discourse the matter. He also congratulated President Johnson-Sirleaf for receiving America's Presidential Decoration of Freedom. The grouping stressed the demand for the President to go abroad and reconstruct Liberia's lost image, adding that Liberians will recognize the benefits in the long run.