-Morial Yeakula Dismisses 2% Law Fears, Says ANC and Cummings Are Safe
MONROVIA – Liberian lawyer and opposition Alternative National Congress (ANC) member Morial Yeakula pushed back against what she called propaganda surrounding the country’s 2% elections law, arguing that neither the ANC nor its political leader Alexander Cummings will be barred from contesting the 2029 elections.
She made the comments in a detailed Facebook post on Tuesday, June 2, 2026. Yeakula began by affirming that the law is the law and that until it is amended by the Legislature or declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, the National Elections Commission (NEC) is right to enforce it.
She then broke down Chapter 5A, Section 5A.1 of the 2014 amendment to the 1986 Elections Law, which states that a political party or independent candidate shall be suspended if two conditions are met: none of the party’s candidates is elected, and the total of all valid votes cast for the party’s candidates is less than two percent of all valid votes cast in the constituencies they contested.
Yeakula emphasized that both conditions must be satisfied for the law to apply, not just one.
Addressing concerns that the ANC could be targeted, she explained that the law does not apply to the ANC because the party was not on the ballot in 2023 and did not nominate any candidates in its own name, as its candidates ran under the banner of the Collaborating Political Parties (CPP).
She further argued that even if one considered the CPP, the law would still not apply for multiple reasons.
First, although the CPP received less than two percent of the total vote, the party still had six of its candidates elected in 2023, including seats in Grand Bassa District 5, Grand Kru District 1, Maryland District 2, Montserrado District 1, Nimba District 2, and Nimba District 7, which means condition A—none elected—was not met.
Second, Yeakula pointed to Section 2 of the law, which exempts any political party that had members continuing to hold office as President or as members of the Legislature at the time of the election.
She noted that during the 2023 elections, the CPP had five sitting senators serving in the Legislature, including Nyonblee Karnga Lawrence of Grand Bassa County, Prince Moye of Bong County, Simeon Boimah Taylor of Cape Mount, Abraham Darius Dillon of Montserrado, and Jonathan Boy Charles Sogbie of River Gee, all of whom had been elected on the CPP ticket in the 2020 senatorial by-elections.
Given this, Yeakula concluded that even though the CPP was dissolved in 2024, the law would still not be applicable to the party today.
Finally, she addressed speculation about Alexander Cummings personally, clarifying that the law only mentions independent candidates, whereas Cummings contested the 2023 election on the CPP ticket and was therefore never an independent candidate.
Yeakula ended her post by declaring that the entire propaganda suggesting the ANC or Cummings will be barred from the 2029 elections is dead on arrival, adding that while others may find the law catching up with them, the ANC, the CPP, and Alexander Cummings have all jumped over it. The Acting Chairperson of the National Elections Commission (NEC) has vowed to enforce the law if confirmed by the Liberian Senate.
