Liberia, April 28 -- IN LIBERIA AND in most countries, the Vice Presidency is not a platform for change-it is where change goes to stall. Our Constitution is clear: executive power belongs to the President.  Everything else is proximity, not authority.  Every major national decision begins and ends with the President

FOR TWO DECADES, we have watched capable, experienced-even ambitious-Vice Presidents enter office with promise and leave with little to show in terms of structural change.

CURRENT PRESIDENT JOSEPH N. Boakai once compared himself to a "parked car," a striking admission that underscores the limits of the office he then held. It also reflects the many missed opportunities of that era.

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