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Kenya election officials set to announce final results

Maravi Post Reporter
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Kenyan election officials are set to announce the final results of the country’s presidential poll.

Deputy President William Ruto and opposition leader Raila Odinga are neck and neck in results reported so far by media.

Slow progress by the electoral commission in tallying last week Tuesday’s vote has sparked anxiety in the country as citizens await to know who their next president will be.

Many are hoping the announcement doesn’t spark electoral violence as witnessed in the past disputed elections.

The winning candidate must obtain 50% of votes plus one.

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President Uhuru Kenyatta, who has served his two-term limit, fell out with Ruto after the last election and endorsed Odinga for president.

Odinga is running for president under the Azimio La Umoja (Declaration of Unity) Alliance, which includes Kenyatta’s Jubilee party. He is a former cabinet minister and prime minister and this was his fifth attempt at becoming President.

Ruto who heads the Kenya Kwanza (Kenya First) Alliance and served as a lawmaker and minister for agriculture before becoming deputy president.

Source: Africafeeds.com

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Kenyans vote for a new president in crucial election

Maravi Post Reporter

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p class=”ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00″>When Mr Ruto who voted in the town of Eldoret in the Rift Valley has pledged to accept the election result.

He told the BBC that “I think for the first time in the history of multiparty democracy in Kenya, all the candidates have undertaken that they will accept the outcome of the results.”

Voters are also choosing parliamentarians and local government officials in Tuesday’s general elections.

Polls are opening for 11 hours and are expected to close at 17:00 local time (14:00 GMT). Anyone still in the queue at closing time will be allowed to vote.

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The results of the last presidential election in 2017 were annulled after the Supreme Court ruled that the electoral commission had not followed the law when it came to the electronic transmission of the vote tallies from the polling stations.

A re-run was won by Mr Kenyatta after the votes were boycotted by Mr Odinga – the main opposition candidate at the time.

To win the presidential race in the first round, a candidate needs more than half of all the votes cast across the country and at least 25% of the votes cast in a minimum of 24 counties.

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Kenya: 250,000 names of dead voters on register

Maravi Post Reporter
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An ongoing audit of Kenya’s voters’ register has found the names of nearly 250,000 deceased voters.

Nearly half a million more voters were found to have duplicate records and more than 226,000 people were registered using documents that do not belong to them.

The audit also detected that some voters had registered with invalid documents.

In a statement, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) said the anomalies affect more than a million people.

IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati said that because of the “implementation of the preliminary audit findings” the commission would delay certifying the final register for publication.

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The commission said earlier that it would publish the register of voters on or before 9 June but has pushed that to 20 June as it seeks to address the findings by KPMG, the firm contracted to do the audit.

Electoral irregularities in past elections in Kenya have led to deadly violence. This year’s elections will be held on August 9.

Four presidential candidates have been cleared to run in the election – David Mwaure, George Wajackoyah, Raila Odinga and William Ruto.

In February this year Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta officially endorsed opposition leader and one-time political rival Raila Odinga to succeed him in the presidential elections this year.

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President Kenyatta urged his supporters to back Mr Odinga’s bid since according to him, he has the best interests of the country at heart.

Mr Odinga is to contest as president under the Azimio la Umoja (Swahili for “pledge of unity”) alliance.

The alliance is made up of 10 parties, including his Orange Democratic Movement and Mr Kenyatta’s Jubilee.

Source: Africafeeds.com

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