EDITORIAL: More decisions ahead for Kenya
Kenyan courts should be allowed to consider the situation afresh. The parties themselves seem incapable of coming to an agreed solution
The Kenyan elections have somehow contrived to produce the precise opposite of the result elections are supposed to produce. Elections are intended to settle, at least for a time, political contests and create the conditions for legitimate government. This Kenyan election seems to have set the government and the opposition on an ever more conflictual path, even though it seemed impossible to intensify their already virulent opposition to each other. Even worse, it has resulted in a less legitimate government, assuming the result stands after being tested in the court, which is itself a big ask. How Kenya got to this point is bewildering. It was not meant to be this way. As it stands, in the rerun presidential elections President Uhuru Kenyatta won 98% of the vote on a 39% turnout, which will go down as the lowest turnout in Kenya’s history. Turnout in the annulled presidential election of August 8 was 79%. The stayaway was the result of opposition candidate Raila Odinga withdrawing ...
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