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The Muungano Party (MP) is a political party in Kenya.
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The Muungano Party (MP) is a political party in Kenya.
The Muungano Party was established in 2007, [1] and nominated a single National Assembly candidate for the 2007 general elections, Tito Mutunga Muunda in Makueni. He received 517 votes, finishing twelfth in a field of nineteen candidates.
In the 2013 elections the party nominated 16 candidates for the National Assembly. It received 0.9% of the vote, winning a single seat, [2] Francis Mwangangi Kilonzo in Yatta. [3] It also won the gubernatorial election in Makueni County, with former MP Kivutha Kibwana elected as the county's Governor. Kibwana left to join Wiper in February 2017. [4]
The party nominated twelve National Assembly candidates for the 2017 general elections, [5] although Kilonzo had left the party and ran as a Chama Cha Uzalendo candidate. [6] The party lost the Yatta seat, but Fabian Muli was elected in Kangundo to retain the party's representation in parliament. [7]
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