The politics of Tanzania takes place in a framework of a unitary presidential democratic republic,whereby the President of Tanzania is both head of state and head of government,and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and parliament. The party system is dominated by the Chama Cha Mapinduzi. The Judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature.
The Civic United Front is a liberal party in Tanzania. Although nationally based,most of the CUF's support comes from the Zanzibar islands of Unguja and Pemba. The party is a member of Liberal International.
The Afro-Shirazi Party (ASP) was a Marxist-Leninist,African nationalist Zanzibari political party formed between the mostly Shirazi Shiraz Party and the mostly African Afro Party.
Abeid Amani Karume was the first President of Zanzibar. He obtained this title as a result of a revolution which led to the deposing of Sir Jamshid bin Abdullah,the last reigning Sultan of Zanzibar,in January 1964. Three months later,the United Republic of Tanzania was founded,and Karume became the first Vice President of the United Republic with Julius Nyerere of Tanganyika as president of the new country. He was the father of Zanzibar's former president,Amani Abeid Karume.
The President of Zanzibar is the head of the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar,which is a semi-autonomous government within Tanzania. The current president is Hussein Mwinyi. The president is also the chairman of the Revolutionary Council,whose members are appointed by the president,and some of which must be selected from the House of Representatives.
Seif Sharif Hamad was a Tanzanian politician who served as the First Vice President of Zanzibar and as Party Chairman of ACT Wazalendo. He was the secretary-general of the opposition Civic United Front (CUF) party and First Vice President of Zanzibar until 18 March 2019 when he announced his resignation from CUF and joined Alliance for Change and Transparency. He was given an ACT Wazalendo card number One,and he also won the party nomination for the 2020 presidential candidate for Zanzibar.
General elections were held in Tanzania on 14 December 2005. Originally scheduled for 30 October,the elections were postponed due to the death of CHADEMA vice-presidential candidate Jumbe Mohamed Jumbe. The elections were the third since the country returned to multi-party rule in 1992. Incumbent President Benjamin Mkapa stepped down after two consecutive terms in accordance with the constitution. Elections for the Presidency of Zanzibar and its House of Representatives took place on 30 October,as scheduled.
Shamsi Vuai Nahodha is a Tanzanian CCM politician and a nominated Member of Parliament since 2010 to 2015. He is a former Minister of Defence and National Service.
Aboud Jumbe Mwinyi was a Zanzibari politician. He held several positions,including the second president of Zanzibar,chairman of the Revolutionary Council,Vice-President of the Union,and the vice-chairman of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party.
Abeid Amani Karume International Airport is the main airport in the Zanzibar Archipelago located on Unguja Island,Zanzibar,Tanzania. It is approximately 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) south of Zanzibar City,the capital of Zanzibar,and has flights to East Africa,Europe,and the Middle East.
People have lived in Zanzibar for 20,000 years. History properly starts when the islands became a base for traders voyaging between the African Great Lakes,the Somali Peninsula,the Arabian peninsula,Iran,and the Indian subcontinent. Unguja offered a protected and defensible harbor,so although the archipelago had few products of value,Omanis and Yemenis settled in what became Zanzibar City as a convenient point from which to trade with towns on the Swahili Coast. They established garrisons on the islands and built the first mosques in the African Great Lakes Region.
Ali Abeid Amani Karume is a Tanzanian diplomat,who is Tanzanian Ambassador to Italy and Dean of Tanzania Ambassadors. He is the son of Zanzibar's first president,Sheikh Abeid Amani Karume and a member of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party since its inception in 1977.
The Articles of Union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar of 1964 is the main foundation of the Constitutions of the United Republic of Tanzania of 1977 and the Zanzibar Revolutionary Government of 1984. The Articles of the Union were signed on April 22,1964,by the Founders of the Union,Julius Nyerere and Abeid Amani Karume and agreed in 11 matters which later increased to over 22 and are the source of tension and dispute between Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar.see Uamsho movement The original Articles of Union which contain both Signatures from Nyerere and Karume are yet to be found.
The Chama Cha Mapinduzi is the dominant ruling party in Tanzania and the second longest-ruling party in Africa,only after the True Whig Party of Liberia. It was formed in 1977,following the merger of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) and the Afro-Shirazi Party (ASP),which were the sole operating parties in mainland Tanzania and the semi-autonomous islands of Zanzibar respectively.
Samia Suluhu Hassan is a Tanzanian politician who has been serving since 2021 as the sixth president of Tanzania. She is a member of the ruling social-democrat Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party and the third female head of government of an East African Community (EAC) country.
General elections were held in Tanzania on 25 October 2015. Voters elected the president,members of Parliament,and local government councillors. By convention,the election was held on the last Sunday of October and was supervised by the National Electoral Commission (NEC). Political campaigns commenced on 22 August and ceased a day before the polling day.
Juma Duni Haji is a Tanzanian politician and former civil servant. He is the deputy chairperson of ACT Wazalendo. He previously served as the Deputy Chairman of the Civic United Front from 2014 to 2015.
Zanzibari independence is a political ambition of some political parties,advocacy groups,and individuals of Zanzibar,a semi-autonomous region territory within Tanzania,to become an independent sovereign state.
General elections were held in Zanzibar on 31 October 2010 alongside the 2010 Tanzanian general elections. Amani Abeid Karume the president of Zanzibar stepped down after completing 2 terms in office. The presidential elections were won by Ali Mohamed Shein of Chama Cha Mapinduzi. Zanzibar elections have always been highly contests and have always been subject to post election violence.
