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Julius Maada Bio
The soldier who once seized power in a coup, then handed it back to civilians — and returned decades later as an elected president.
KemetLeads Scorecard
How we score →Elected in 2018, re-elected in a disputed 2023 vote; conduct broadly constitutional.
Rows 1–4: country-level change during the tenure — evidence, not proof.
Our read
Broadly constitutional conduct through two disputed-but-accepted elections; the scorecard's caution is about how the wins were contested, not how they ended.
The rise
A career soldier in the NPRC junta, he led a 1996 coup that toppled Valentine Strasser, then organised elections and transferred power to elected civilian Ahmad Tejan Kabbah within months. After years abroad and study, he won the presidency for the SLPP in 2018.
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