A presidential election runoff in Liberia scheduled for Tuesday will be delayed by the Supreme Court’s investigation into accusations of fraud, the National Elections Commission said on Friday.

The former soccer star George Weah and Vice President Joseph Boakai are competing to succeed President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate whose election in 2005 helped draw a line under 14 years of civil war.

The vote would be Liberia’s first democratic transition of power since 1944, but the Supreme Court this week halted preparations while it examined charges by Charles Brumskine’s Liberty Party, the third-place finisher, that the first round, on Oct. 10, was marred by fraud.

Chief Justice Francis Korkpor said the court would issue its decision on Monday morning, one day before what had been the scheduled date of the runoff election.