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General elections were held in Kenya on 27 December 2007. [1] Voters elected the President, and members of the National Assembly. They coincided with the 2007 Kenyan local elections.
Incumbent Mwai Kibaki, running on a Party of National Unity (PNU) ticket, defeated Raila Odinga, leader of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) and Kalonzo Musyoka of Orange Democratic Movement–Kenya. The elections were strongly marked by ethnic hostility, with Kibaki a member of the traditionally dominant Kikuyu ethnic group, gaining much support amongst the Kikuyu and neighbouring groups in central Kenya, including the Embu and Meru. Odinga, as a member of the Luo ethnic group, succeeded in creating a wider base by building a coalition with regional leaders from the Luhya in Western Kenya, Kalenjin from the Rift Valley and Muslim leaders from the Coast Province. Kibaki was declared the winner with 46% of the vote, and was sworn in at State House on 30 December. However, opposition leader Raila Odinga also claimed victory, [2] [3] and civil unrest broke out resulting in the deaths of several hundred people and the displacement of up to 600,000. This was ended by the National Accord and Reconciliation Act, which led to Odinga being appointed as Prime Minister.
In the National Assembly elections, the ODM won 99 of the 208 seats, with the PNU finishing second with 43 seats. The Kenya African National Union, which had ruled the country from independence until 2002 was reduced to being the fourth-largest party with only 15 seats. Only 71 of the 190 sitting MPs were re-elected, twenty ministers lost their seats and a record 15 female MPs were elected. [4]
There is agreement in the international community that the presidential elections were at least partially manipulated. [5] In July 2008, an exit poll commissioned by the US was released, suggested that Odinga was predicted to have won the presidency by a comfortable margin of 6%, 46% to 40%, well outside the exit poll's 1.3% margin of error. [6]
Incumbent president Mwai Kibaki declared his intention to run for re-election on 26 January 2007, although he had previously declared prior to the 2002 elections that he needed only one term as president. [7] On 16 September 2007, Kibaki announced that he would run as the candidate of a new alliance called the Party of National Unity, which would include a number of parties, including KANU, [8] [9] the Democratic Party, NARC–Kenya, FORD-Kenya, Ford–People and Shirikisho among others. [9]
The Orange Democratic Movement–Kenya (ODM–Kenya) alliance was expected to field the strongest challenger to Kibaki; the main parties originally affiliated to ODM–Kenya were the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and KANU. [10] At the time of the 2002 elections, the LDP had been part of the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) movement backing Kibaki, but its ministers were dismissed from the cabinet after the 2005 constitutional referendum. [11] KANU and LDP had originally teamed up for the 2005 referendum under the banner Orange Democratic Movement, [12] but former president Daniel arap Moi was among the KANU faction opposing involvement with the ODM–Kenya coalition. [13] As a result, ODM–Kenya split in two in August 2007, one remaining as ODM–Kenya and led by Kalonzo Musyoka, the other going by the name Orange Democratic Movement (ODM). KANU subsequently left the coalition entirely, and Moi announced his support for Kibaki, his former political enemy, in late August. [14] Uhuru Kenyatta followed suit and announced his support for Kibaki in mid-September. KANU did not nominate as presidential candidate, although it contested the National Assembly elections. [15]
Several ODM members vied for presidency, including Musyoka, Raila Odinga, Kenyatta (before KANU's withdrawal), William Ruto, Najib Balala, Musalia Mudavadi and Joseph Nyagah. [16] Following the August 2007 split, ODM–Kenya appointed Musyoka as its candidate on 31 August and the ODM selected Odinga as its candidate on 1 September. [17] [18] [19]
Presidential candidates presented their nomination papers on 14 and 15 November to the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) and nine candidates were cleared to be on the ballot in December. [20] All nine presidential candidates also ran for a parliamentary seat as required by Kenyan law; the presidential election winner needed to also win a parliamentary seat to be named president. [21]
The ninth parliament was dissolved on Monday 22 October 2007, [22] with the election date of 27 December announced on 26 October 2007 by the ECK. The ECK initially set a deadline of 19 November 2007 for submitting the candidate lists to prevent candidates from defecting after failing to gain nominations from their parties, but later retracted and allowed defections to minor parties. [23] The ODM, PNU and ODM–K held their primary elections on 16 November, with all three termed as chaotic and being marred by irregularities and violence. Numerous candidates defected to smaller parties after failing to get candidature by their respective parties, [24] including Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai, who failed to gain a PNU nomination, and former Interior Minister Chris Murungaru, who lost out to a little-known trader. [25]
There were 14,296,180 registered voters; 68.8% of the electorate were aged between 18 and 40, with the remaining 31.2% being those over 40. [21]
Kibaki began his presidential campaign on 30 September at Nyayo Stadium in Nairobi. [26] Odinga launched his campaign in Uhuru Park on 6 October 2007. [27] [28] On the same day, three ODM supporters were shot (one of them fatally), allegedly by bodyguards of Stanley Livondo, who was running as the PNU candidate for Odinga's seat in the National Assembly. Livondo was arrested, along with two of his bodyguards and later released. [28] Pius Muiru, a televangelist and the leader of Kenya People's Party (KPP), officially launched his bid for the presidency on 21 October 2007 at Kamukunji grounds. [29]
Two cabinet ministers, first Health Minister Charity Ngilu and then Regional Co-operation Minister John Koech, backed Odinga in October; Kibaki dismissed Ngilu from the cabinet. [30]
A record 2,548 candidates contested the National Assembly elections, more than double the 1,033 that ran in 2002. [31] [21] The 269 female candidates was also a record. [31]
The ODM had the highest number of candidates with 190, followed by Kenya National Democratic Alliance (KENDA) with 170, the PNU (135), ODM–K (135), KADDU (97) KANU (91), Safina (88), NARC (73), the Democratic Party (86) and NARC–Kenya (59). A total of 108 parties fielded parliamentary candidates, another record. [31] For the first time, no party fielded a candidate in every constituency; every previous election had seen KANU contest every seat. [31] The Kitutu Masaba Constituency had the highest number of candidates at 33 and all 210 constituencies had at least two candidates, meaning that there were no uncontested seats, another first. [21]
Opinion polls in late October put support for Odinga at 50%, with Kibaki at 39%, and Musyoka at 8%. [32] A poll released in early November put Odinga at 45%, Kibaki at 41% and Musyoka at 11%, while on 23 November a poll placed Odinga and Kibaki at about the same level, with 43.6% and 43.3% respectively. [33]
Date | Pollster | Kibaki | Musyoka | Odinga | Mudavadi | Ruto | Kenyatta |
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October 2006 | Steadman International | 41% | 20% | 13% | 3% | 5% | |
December 2006 | Steadman International | 42% | 20% | 14% | 3% | 5% | |
March 2007 | Steadman International | 51% | 14% | 17% | 2% | 2% | 2% |
April 2007 | IRI | 44.3% | 15.3% | 18.7% | 2.7% | 2.6% | 3.5% |
June 2007 | RMS | 45% | 14% | 28% | 4% | 3% | 4% |
July 2007 | Steadman International | 45% | 11% | 25% | 3% | 2% | 2% |
August 2007 | Infotrak/Harris Interactive | 42% | 11% | 25% | 8% | 6% | 1% |
August 2007 | Steadman International | 47% | 13% | 36% | 1% | 1% | |
September 2007 | Steadman International [ permanent dead link ] | 38% | 8% | 47% | |||
13 October 2007 | Steadman International | 37% | 8% | 53% | |||
23 October 2007 | Steadman International | 39% | 8% | 50% | |||
9 November 2007 | Steadman International | 41% | 11% | 45% | |||
21 November 2007 | Consumer Insight | 41.4% | 14.7% | 40.7% | |||
17 November 2007 | Gallup | 42% | 11% | 45% | |||
23 November 2007 | Steadman International [ permanent dead link ] | 43.3% | 11.4% | 43.6% | |||
7 December 2007 | Steadman International | 42% | 10% | 46% | |||
18 December 2007 | Steadman International | 43% | 10% | 45% |
Early results published by the Kenyan media gave Raila Odinga a narrow lead of 1,691,679 votes against Kibaki's 1,222,725 in 69 of the country's 210 constituencies. [34] Odinga held a strong lead in vote counting on 28 December, [35] and the ODM declared victory on 29 December; [36] however, as more results were announced on the same day, the gap between the two candidates narrowed. [35] [36] Early on 30 December, Odinga accused the government of fraud, urged Kibaki to concede defeat, and called for a recount. [37] The ECK declared Kibaki the winner later on 30 December, placing him ahead of Odinga by about 232,000 votes. [38] [39] According to Odinga, at least 300,000 votes for Kibaki were falsely included in his total. [40] ECK chairman Samuel Kivuitu said that while irregularities had occurred, they were a matter for the courts, not the Electoral Commission. [41] Following the commission's declaration of his victory, Kibaki was sworn in for his second term later on the same day, [39] [42] saying that he had been told by his people that he had won, calling for the "verdict of the people" to be respected and for "healing and reconciliation" to begin. [39]
Kivuitu said that there were some problems with the count, noting that in one constituency voter turnout was reported as 115%, [43] although this was later clarified by Kivuitu appearing in an interview by Nation Television due to a double entry of one polling station in Maragua Constituency on the parliamentary tally and not the presidential tally. According to the European Union's head election observer, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, the elections were "flawed" [35] and the ECK had failed to establish "the credibility of the tallying process to the satisfaction of all parties and candidates." [44] The United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, said that he had "real concerns" about the elections. While the United States initially congratulated Kibaki and called for the results to be respected, [45] it also expressed concern, [46] and on 2 January 2008 a spokesman for the US State Department declined to confirm US recognition of Kibaki's victory. [47] In a telex from then US Embassy in Nairobi to the State Department in Washington DC [released in July 2012], US Ambassador Michael Ranneberger set out five scenarios as to who really won the election. He wrote, ‘In all cases the margin of victory for either side is slim and ultimately unknowable’. The telex also noted that there was ‘evidence of rigging on both sides’. [48] [49] Kivuitu said on 2 January that he had been pressured by PNU and ODM–K (Kibaki's and Kalonzo Musyoka's parties) into announcing the results without delay, declaring Kibaki the winner; claiming that he did not personally know who really won. [50]
Within minutes of the commission's declaration of Kibaki's victory, ethnically based rioting and violence, primarily directed against Kikuyus, broke out across Kenya, [35] and the government suspended live television coverage for some days. [35] [45] [51] [52] Odinga alleged that "a clique of people around Kibaki" sought to rig the election, but said that democracy "is unstoppable like the flow of the Nile". The ODM announced its intention to hold a ceremony on 31 December in which Odinga would be declared the "people's president", but police said that this could incite violence and that Odinga could be arrested if the ceremony occurred. [45] Odinga then delayed this, but called for a million-strong rally on 3 January 2008 and for his supporters to wear black armbands as a show of mourning. [53] [54]
Odinga said that the ODM would not negotiate with Kibaki unless he resigned, because to do so would mean acknowledging Kibaki's legitimacy; he also said that, unless stopped, the "ruling clique" could rig the next elections in five years as well, and that he was not afraid of being arrested, having been jailed many times in the past. [55] For his part, Kibaki emphasised the importance of peace, stability, and tolerance in his 2008 New Year's message, speaking of the elections as a concluded event and warning that law-breakers would be punished. [56]
Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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Mwai Kibaki | Party of National Unity | 4,584,721 | 46.42 | |
Raila Odinga | Orange Democratic Movement | 4,352,993 | 44.07 | |
Kalonzo Musyoka | Orange Democratic Movement–Kenya | 879,903 | 8.91 | |
Joseph Karani | Kenya Patriotic Trust Party | 21,171 | 0.21 | |
Pius Muiru | Kenya Peoples' Party | 9,667 | 0.10 | |
Nazlin Omar | Workers Congress Party of Kenya | 8,624 | 0.09 | |
Kenneth Matiba | Saba Saba Asili | 8,046 | 0.08 | |
David Waweru Ng'ethe | Chama Cha Uma | 5,976 | 0.06 | |
Nixon Kukubo | Republican Party of Kenya | 5,927 | 0.06 | |
Total | 9,877,028 | 100.00 | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 14,296,180 | – | ||
Source: African Elections Database |
Preliminary results showed that Vice-President Moody Awori and Wangari Maathai both lost their seats. Other notable politicians with the same fate included Mutahi Kagwe, Musikari Kombo, Simeon Nyachae, Nicholas Biwott, Chris Murungaru, Mukhisa Kituyi, Raphael Tuju, Kipruto Kirwa, Njenga Karume and Gideon Moi, the son of former president Daniel arap Moi. [57] [58] [59] [60]
The elections were cancelled in Kamukunji and Kilgoris. [61]
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Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
Orange Democratic Movement | 2,973,415 | 30.83 | 99 | New | |
Party of National Unity | 2,014,413 | 20.89 | 43 | New | |
Orange Democratic Movement–Kenya | 633,880 | 6.57 | 16 | New | |
Kenya African National Union | 613,864 | 6.36 | 15 | −49 | |
Safina | 366,629 | 3.80 | 5 | +3 | |
National Rainbow Coalition | 328,945 | 3.41 | 3 | – | |
Democratic Party | 237,205 | 2.46 | 2 | −37 | |
FORD–People | 192,489 | 2.00 | 3 | −11 | |
Kenya African Democratic Development Union | 190,051 | 1.97 | 1 | – | |
Kenya National Democratic Alliance | 162,538 | 1.69 | 1 | +1 | |
NARC–Kenya | 158,752 | 1.65 | 4 | New | |
Sisi Kwa Sisi | 149,933 | 1.55 | 2 | 0 | |
Chama Cha Uzalendo | 115,243 | 1.19 | 2 | – | |
United Democratic Movement | 107,831 | 1.12 | 1 | +1 | |
Mazingira Green Party of Kenya | 95,227 | 0.99 | 1 | +1 | |
New Ford Kenya | 88,562 | 0.92 | 2 | New | |
Party of Independent Candidates of Kenya | 85,348 | 0.88 | 2 | +2 | |
FORD–Kenya | 75,145 | 0.78 | 1 | −20 | |
FORD–Asili | 66,013 | 0.68 | 1 | −1 | |
National Labour Party | 51,887 | 0.54 | 1 | – | |
The Independent Party | 50,797 | 0.53 | 0 | – | |
Social Democratic Party | 39,871 | 0.41 | 0 | 0 | |
Kenya National Congress | 39,840 | 0.41 | 0 | 0 | |
Party of Hope | 35,962 | 0.37 | 0 | – | |
National Patriotic Party of Kenya | 33,289 | 0.35 | 0 | – | |
Labour Party of Kenya | 33,008 | 0.34 | 0 | – | |
Republican Alliance Party of Kenya | 31,331 | 0.32 | 0 | – | |
KADU–Asili | 30,462 | 0.32 | 1 | – | |
Agano Party | 30,085 | 0.31 | 0 | – | |
New Sisi Kwa Sisi Kenya | 28,893 | 0.30 | 0 | – | |
Chama Cha Mwananchi | 27,438 | 0.28 | 0 | – | |
Forum for Republican Party | 26,333 | 0.27 | 0 | – | |
United Democratic Party of Kenya | 23,870 | 0.25 | 0 | – | |
Green African Party | 20,038 | 0.21 | 0 | – | |
Dynamic Development Party | 19,972 | 0.21 | 0 | – | |
United Democrats of Peace And Integrity in Kenya | 19,648 | 0.20 | 0 | – | |
Community Development Party | 18,994 | 0.20 | 0 | – | |
Farmers Party | 18,985 | 0.20 | 0 | – | |
Federal Party of Kenya | 17,491 | 0.18 | 0 | – | |
Peoples Democratic Party | 15,655 | 0.16 | 1 | +1 | |
National Integrity Party | 15,443 | 0.16 | 0 | – | |
Republican Liberty Party | 15,379 | 0.16 | 0 | – | |
Shirikisho Party of Kenya | 15,228 | 0.16 | 0 | – | |
New Democrats | 14,986 | 0.16 | 0 | – | |
Peoples Party of Kenya | 14,892 | 0.15 | 1 | +1 | |
Peoples' Solidarity Union of Kenya | 14,315 | 0.15 | 0 | – | |
New Revival Generation Party | 14,302 | 0.15 | 0 | – | |
United People's Congress | 12,750 | 0.13 | 0 | – | |
Pambazuka Party of Kenya | 12,390 | 0.13 | 0 | – | |
Kenya Citizens Congress | 12,347 | 0.13 | 0 | – | |
Growth and Development Party | 11,786 | 0.12 | 0 | – | |
Social Party for Advancement and Reforms – Kenya | 11,764 | 0.12 | 0 | – | |
National Democratic Alliance | 11,357 | 0.12 | 0 | – | |
Kenya Social Congress | 11,223 | 0.12 | 0 | 0 | |
Liberal Democratic Movement | 10,886 | 0.11 | 0 | – | |
Republican Party of Kenya | 10,494 | 0.11 | 0 | – | |
Generation Alliance Party of Kenya | 9,808 | 0.10 | 0 | – | |
Daraja Ya Wakenya Party | 9,719 | 0.10 | 0 | – | |
National Alliance Party | 9,112 | 0.09 | 0 | – | |
Saba Saba Asili | 8,301 | 0.09 | 0 | – | |
Kifagio Party of Kenya | 8,106 | 0.08 | 0 | – | |
Progressive Party of Kenya | 8,081 | 0.08 | 0 | – | |
Kenya People's Party | 8,067 | 0.08 | 0 | – | |
Chama Cha Uma Party | 7,367 | 0.08 | 0 | – | |
New Kanu Alliance Party of Kenya | 7,010 | 0.07 | 0 | – | |
Mass Party of Kenya | 6,600 | 0.07 | 0 | – | |
National Progressive Party | 6,106 | 0.06 | 0 | – | |
Vipa Progressive Alliance | 5,652 | 0.06 | 0 | – | |
Common Wealth Development Party of Kenya | 5,573 | 0.06 | 0 | – | |
Workers Congress Party of Kenya | 5,386 | 0.06 | 0 | – | |
New Aspiration Party | 5,172 | 0.05 | 0 | – | |
Democratic Representative Party | 5,020 | 0.05 | 0 | – | |
Kenya Affiliated Democratic Unity | 4,531 | 0.05 | 0 | – | |
Kenya Nationalist Peoples Democratic Party | 4,099 | 0.04 | 0 | – | |
Freedom Party of Kenya | 3,795 | 0.04 | 0 | – | |
Movement for Democratic Advancement Party of Kenya | 2,496 | 0.03 | 0 | – | |
Citizen Democratic Party of Kenya | 2,485 | 0.03 | 0 | – | |
Democratic Labour Party of Kenya | 2,439 | 0.03 | 0 | – | |
Communal Democracy Party of Kenya | 2,347 | 0.02 | 0 | – | |
National Dynamic Development Party | 2,252 | 0.02 | 0 | – | |
National Renewal People's Party | 2,009 | 0.02 | 0 | – | |
Kenya Patriotic Trust Party | 1,878 | 0.02 | 0 | – | |
The National Integration Party of Kenya | 1,799 | 0.02 | 0 | – | |
Kenya Union of National Alliance of Peace | 1,457 | 0.02 | 0 | – | |
National Party of Kenya | 1,339 | 0.01 | 0 | – | |
Chama Cha Muafaka Na Mwangaza | 1,250 | 0.01 | 0 | – | |
Democracy Assistance Party | 1,220 | 0.01 | 0 | – | |
National Liberation Party | 1,089 | 0.01 | 0 | – | |
National Conservative Party of Kenya | 1,081 | 0.01 | 0 | – | |
Chama Cha Utu | 985 | 0.01 | 0 | – | |
Allied Democratic Party of Kenya | 976 | 0.01 | 0 | – | |
Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy in Kenya | 923 | 0.01 | 0 | – | |
Kenya National Liberation Party | 898 | 0.01 | 0 | – | |
Moral Integrity Party | 885 | 0.01 | 0 | – | |
Party for Economic Change And Democracy | 879 | 0.01 | 0 | – | |
The Nuru Party | 832 | 0.01 | 0 | – | |
Green Social Democratic Party of Kenya | 706 | 0.01 | 0 | – | |
Kenya Cultural Alliance | 699 | 0.01 | 0 | – | |
National Star Party of Kenya | 691 | 0.01 | 0 | – | |
Social Welfare Alliance Party of Kenya | 620 | 0.01 | 0 | – | |
Wakulima Party of Kenya | 598 | 0.01 | 0 | – | |
Jubilee Peoples Party of Kenya | 547 | 0.01 | 0 | – | |
Muungano Party | 517 | 0.01 | 0 | – | |
Pan Africa Assemblies | 475 | 0.00 | 0 | – | |
Reform Party of Kenya | 390 | 0.00 | 0 | – | |
Forum for Orange Democratic Change Party | 318 | 0.00 | 0 | – | |
Peoples Patriotic Party of Kenya | 301 | 0.00 | 0 | – | |
Democratic Community Party | 233 | 0.00 | 0 | – | |
Restoration Democrats of Kenya | 219 | 0.00 | 0 | – | |
Universal Democratic Party of Kenya | 204 | 0.00 | 0 | – | |
Kenya Political Caucus Party of Kenya | 203 | 0.00 | 0 | – | |
Kenya Peoples Convention Party | 181 | 0.00 | 0 | – | |
The National Republican Party of Kenya | 172 | 0.00 | 0 | – | |
Kenya Republican Reformation Party | 76 | 0.00 | 0 | – | |
Movement for Democratic Advancement Party | 62 | 0.00 | 0 | – | |
Union of Democratic Party | 50 | 0.00 | 0 | – | |
United Party of Democracy | 46 | 0.00 | 0 | – | |
Vacant | 2 | – | |||
Total | 9,645,206 | 100.00 | 210 | 0 | |
Source: IDE |
Kibaki, of the Kikuyu ethnic group, was supported by Kikuyus, while Odinga, of the Luo ethnic group, was supported by the Luo and Kalenjins. Fifteen minutes after Kibaki was announced as the winner of the presidential elections, Luo began violent demonstrations in Nairobi. Within a day, nearly all businesses were closed and streets were empty. During January and February 2008, hundreds of thousands of people were displaced from their homes, and more than 1,000 people died from the post-election violence. Crime exploded in Kikuyu settlements in the Rift Valley, and intra-urban slums in Mombasa. Most Kikuyus in the Rift Valley fled their homes and settled anywhere they could find refuge. Some Kikuyu's settled in a church at Kiambaa in Eldoret, where Kalenjin youth barricaded the door from outside and set the church on fire killing about 30 people. [62] Farms were looted and roads were blocked, leaving people unable to work, farmers and commuters alike. Many members of large ethnic groups attacked anyone whom they felt didn't belong; minorities and people that had come from other countries were common targets. Some people even fled to Uganda and other nearby countries to escape the social unrest. One sector greatly affected by the political unrest was tourism; flights and tours were cancelled, companies withdrew from Kenya, and many people lost their job due to lay-offs. The international media covered the tragedies extensively, giving the outside world the impression that the entire country was amidst a bloody battle, when truly, parts of Kenya were untouched by violence. The loss Kenya suffered from the lack of visitation equals approximately $47.6 million. [63] The fragile state of the economy affected surrounding countries as well.
After being sworn in as president, Kibaki named a partial cabinet on 8 January 2008, composed of 17 MPs from his party PNU and ODM–Kenya which entered into a coalition agreement, along with KANU. A number of further cabinet slots were left temporarily open, presumably to give space for negotiations with the opposition ODM, which immediately challenged the constitutionality of the new government.
By April 2008, Kenya was stable, though the conflict left “1,500 dead, 3,000 innocent women raped, and 300,000 people internally displaced." [64] Kibaki remained President and Odinga was named Prime Minister. The National Assembly results were cancelled in three of the 210 constituencies. Prior to 2007, hostility surrounding politics in Kenya existed on a much smaller scale. In 1991, when multi-party politics was introduced, violence became known as an election-time tradition. However, the fighting and aggression demonstrated in December 2007 and January and February 2008 was and has been unmatched by any election-related uprising. In August 2012, the Nakuru County Peace Accord was signed, a treaty designed to address sources of ethnic conflict and violence in the Rift Valley region of Kenya.
Both Kibaki and Odinga largely ignored United Nations efforts to set up independent tribunals to bring the leaders of the post 2007-election violence to justice. [64]
On 10 December 2020, a high court orders the government to compensate four victims of sexual attacks by security agents during post-election violence during violence following the 2007 Kenyan general election. [65]
Position | Minister |
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Vice-President | Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka |
Minister for Home Affairs | |
Minister of State for Defence | Mohamed Yusuf Haji |
Minister of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security | |
Minister for Education | Sam Ongeri |
Minister for Energy | Kiraitu Murungi |
Minister for Finance | Amos Kimunya |
Minister for Foreign Affairs | Moses Wetangula |
Minister for Information and Communications | Samuel Poghisio |
Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs | Martha Karua |
Minister for Local Government | Uhuru Kenyatta |
Minister for Public Service | Asman Kamama |
Minister for Roads and Public Works | John Michuki |
Minister for Science and Technology | Noah Wekesa |
Minister of State for Special Programmes | Naomi Shaban |
Minister for the East African Community | Wilfred Machage |
Minister for Transport | Chirau Ali Mwakwere |
Minister for Water and Irrigation | John Munyes |
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The Wiper Democratic Movement–Kenya (WDM-K), formerly Orange Democratic Movement–Kenya (ODM–Kenya), is a political party in Kenya, which originated as a result of the 2005 Kenyan constitutional referendum. It is headed by Kalonzo Musyoka, who ran for president in 2007 and served as the vice-president in the Grand Coalition of Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga. He is now a member of the main opposition Azimio La Umoja One Kenya Party.
The Party of National Unity (PNU) is a political party in Kenya originally founded as a political coalition. On 16 September 2007, Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki announced the party formation and said that he would run as its presidential candidate in the December 2007 Kenyan elections. It has since become a political party in its own right following conditions set by the Political Parties Act, passed in Kenya in 2008. Recently PNU has launched activities to revamp itself ahead of the 2022 general elections.
Majimbo is a Swahili term that is commonly used in Kenya to refer to the idea of political devolution of power to the country's regions. It is alleged by critics, including former vice-president Oginga Odinga in his book Not Yet Uhuru, to have been coined by European settlers in Kenya's White Highlands region, around the time of independence in 1963, who preferred to retain an autonomous, ethnically based governance over the region. It has also been alleged, by some of its critics, that majimbo is a pretext for the type of communal violence that has plagued Kenya's elections especially since the return of multiparty politics. In his autobiography Illusions of Power, G.G Kariuki, a long serving KANU Member of Parliament, goes as far as to allege the existence of a plot to instigate communal violence in Kenya's independence elections by supporters of a Majimbo system of government.
The 2007–2008 Kenyan crisis was a violent political, economic, and humanitarian crisis that erupted in Kenya after former President Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner of the presidential election held on December 27, 2007. Supporters of Kibaki's main opponent in that election, Raila Odinga of the Orange Democratic Movement, alleged electoral manipulation. This position was widely confirmed by international observers, as being perpetrated by both parties in the election. Even the head of the electoral commission himself confirmed that he did not know who had won the elections despite announcing the incumbent as president.
Opinion polls played an important role in the runup to the Kenyan elections of December 2007. A number of institutes published results on the presidential candidates. Nation Media employed the Kenyan Steadman market information company to conduct regular polls, which thus received the widest attention.
The 9th Parliament of the Republic of Kenya was opened by elected President Mwai Kibaki on February 18, 2003. It was the first time that the formerly-dominant Kenya African National Union of Daniel arap Moi was in the minority. The triumphant NARC, which dominated in the general elections of 2002 was in the majority, led by Kibaki.
The 10th Parliament of Kenya saw the National Assembly opened on 15 January 2008. This following the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) of Raila Odinga winning a majority in the 2007 parliamentary elections. Raila was a candidate in the presidential elections, which resulted in a controversial victory for Mwai Kibaki of the Party of National Unity. The opening of the parliament was fraught with jeers, cheers and brawls between the opposing parties; Mwai Kibaki was greeted by the ODM members with silence and boos, while Raila was greeted by PNU members with accusations of genocide.
Kipkalya Kiprono Kones was a Kenyan politician who served as a minister during the 1990s and was briefly Minister of Roads in 2008. He was a member of the National Assembly of Kenya from 1988 to 2008.
The National Alliance (TNA) was a political party in Kenya. It took on its current identity when Uhuru Kenyatta assumed control and renamed it as the vehicle for his 2012 presidential campaign.
Azimio la Umoja–One Kenya Coalition Party, popularly referred as Azimio la Umoja, or simply Azimio, is a Kenyan political alliance and party headed by Raila Odinga. It is composed of the Orange Democratic Movement, the Jubilee Party, NARC–Kenya, KANU, and other parties. Former president Uhuru Kenyatta is the party's patron. The alliance fielded Odinga as its presidential candidate and Martha Karua as its deputy presidential candidate in the 2022 Kenyan election, which they lost.