Sierra Leone election: voter trust has been shaken, and will need to be regained

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With 56% of votes cast in the election on 24 June, Bio was declared winner ahead of his main rival, Samura Kamara, who polled 41%.

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  • With 56% of votes cast in the election on 24 June, Bio was declared winner ahead of his main rival, Samura Kamara, who polled 41%.
  • Kamara rejected the result and international election observers have highlighted some problems with the way votes were counted.
  • There has been relative calm across Sierra Leone since Bio was sworn in.

What did you learn from the outcome of this election?

    • Sierra Leoneans expect that the election process is potentially corrupt unless there is full transparency in the whole process.
    • The public had very high levels of trust in the two elections immediately after the civil war, which ended in 2002, because the United Nations was heavily involved.
    • It was involved in the planning and execution of the 2002 election and, to a lesser degree, the 2007 elections.

What has changed between 2012 and 2023 to result in the return of nepotism and cronyism?

    • The citizens complied without complaint, even as these were technically violations of basic human rights.
    • This is because the people were so committed to ensuring a free and fair election.

Who has been responsible for the pre-election violence?

    • A standard-bearer who considers themselves wronged will call on the party’s followers to “demonstrate”.
    • This is to ensure that those who are potentially corrupt see that others are trying to hold them to account.

What factors determine voter turnout?

    • The new president will do essentially what the last president did, with minor variations.
    • They have a sense of two things: one which is extremely likely, and the other which might happen.
    • So they turn out to vote for the candidate who will hurt them the least, and might actually help them.

What does the 2023 election outcome portend for democracy?

    • There may still be violence, and there may be a crackdown on protest, which starts down a dangerous road to authoritarianism or potentially wider violence.
    • Backsliding anywhere is dangerous, and no election is too small to ignore.
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