Georg Ebner
Non-Aligned
Roman romantic reactionary Catholic
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Post by Georg Ebner on Aug 15, 2022 16:06:12 GMT
It seems, noBody has followed the elections few days ago? The races turned out as extremely close (also the decisive one for the president) and the counting is KAFKAesque: The EC published only screenShots of the precinctResults and journalists summed them up, for example here: elections.nation.africaBut without all precincts being taken into account. Now the EC releases slowly the results per constituency, presently they are at 253/291. Doubtlessly fraudAccusations will emerge after all this, at least, if Ruto will finally lose (what looks not so likely at the moment). How do the 2 main candidates differ? Amusingly Odinga as 2017's counterPart of president Kenyatta jr. stands for continuity - what includes the government's reForms -, while Ruto leads a left&right-coalition opposing them - despite being nominally the VicePresident... |
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Post by rcronald on Aug 16, 2022 8:06:42 GMT
Poor Raila Odinga,
Imagine losing 4 close Presidential elections straight…..
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Post by rcronald on Aug 16, 2022 9:33:15 GMT
Final Results:
Presidential Election
Ruto (Kwanza) - 50.49%
Odinga (Azimio) - 48.85%
National Assembly
Azimio - 162
Kwanza - 159
Senate
Kwanza - 24
Azimio - 23
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iain
Lib Dem
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Post by iain on Aug 16, 2022 10:50:37 GMT
Poor Raila Odinga, Imagine losing 4 close Presidential elections straight….. Keiko Fujimori has only lost three, but with a combined losing margin of just 3.4% - the latter two both by less than 0.3%. |
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Post by rcronald on Aug 16, 2022 11:04:46 GMT
Poor Raila Odinga, Imagine losing 4 close Presidential elections straight….. Keiko Fujimori has only lost three, but with a combined losing margin of just 3.4% - the latter two both by less than 0.3%. I agree, but: 1.it is pretty widely recognized that Odinga lost in 07 because of widespread fraud (as such, he probably knows that he had 1 election stolen from him). 2.Fujimori should be thankful that she was even in the position to win in the 2nd round, because she would have lost handily to any other candidate. |
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Post by timrollpickering on Aug 16, 2022 13:23:52 GMT
Odinga has rejected the result. Something like 4/7 of the Electoral Commission refused to sign off the result the chair declared. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-62559899I have a bad feeling about this. Forty years ago I was in Nairobi at the start of the month. |
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Post by rcronald on Aug 16, 2022 13:27:37 GMT
Odinga has rejected the result. Something like 4/7 of the Electoral Commission refused to sign off the result the chair declared. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-62559899I have a bad feeling about this. Forty years ago I was in Nairobi at the start of the month. 07 all over again, but why would Kenyatta rig the results against the candidate he personally supported? |
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Post by minionofmidas on Aug 17, 2022 17:33:18 GMT
Odinga has rejected the result. Something like 4/7 of the Electoral Commission refused to sign off the result the chair declared. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-62559899I have a bad feeling about this. Forty years ago I was in Nairobi at the start of the month. 07 all over again, but why would Kenyatta rig the results against the candidate he personally supported? technically speaking none of the quotations in the bbc article allege fraud, or indeed any imperfections in the counting process. |
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The Bishop
Labour
Down With Factionalism!
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Post by The Bishop on Aug 18, 2022 10:56:38 GMT
Odinga has rejected the result. Something like 4/7 of the Electoral Commission refused to sign off the result the chair declared. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-62559899I have a bad feeling about this. Forty years ago I was in Nairobi at the start of the month. Wondered what this was a reference to so looked it up, never knew there was a serious coup attempt then. |
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