National
Speaker of the House of Representatives
How it's filled
- In plain words
- Chosen by the House from among its members
- Exact method
- Elected by the House of Representatives once every six years (Constitution Art. 49).
- Chosen by
- House of Representatives of Liberia
- Seats
- 1
Who holds it now
- Richard Koon UP since May 2025 Report Source: liberianinvestigator.com, checked (+1 more)
Sources
- constituteproject.org · checked Constitute Project, Liberia 1986 Constitution, read 2026-10-12: Arts. 45, 47, 48, 49, 51, 54, 67, 80(d) and 83(b): corrected article citations in selection_detail (world:lr cited Arts. 30/49/66 and a 404 URL, constitution/Liberia_2011). For: Speaker of the House of Representatives
- constituteproject.org · checked Constitution of Liberia 1986, read 2026-10-12: office selection, seat counts and terms. For: Speaker of the House of Representatives
- liberianinvestigator.com · checked The Liberian Investigator, "Richard Koon elected Speaker", 2025-05-13, read 2026-10-12: Koon elected Speaker of the 55th Legislature on Tuesday 13 May 2025 after Speaker J. Fonati Koffa resigned on 12 May; FrontPage Africa (2025-05-13) reports the 43-26 vote and that the Supreme Court had declared his earlier majority-bloc leadership illegal. Start date corrected from 2024-11-21. Fallback: news reports, because legislature.gov.lr does not resolve (DNS). For: Richard Koon, current term
- en.wikipedia.org · checked Wikipedia (Cabinet of Liberia, Liberian Senate, House of Representatives of Liberia), read 2026-10-12: current holders and start dates. Fallback: Wikipedia and Wikidata, because legislature.gov.lr and emansion.gov.lr were unreachable; not yet cross-checked against an official source. For: Richard Koon, current term
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