EU monitors say Kenya’s flawed election ‘weakened’ the country’s democracy
Nairobi — EU election monitors said on Wednesday that Kenya’s flawed presidential poll had "weakened" the country’s democracy in a critical report that triggered an angry government response. President Uhuru Kenyatta won a second term in an October re-run after his initial victory was nullified by the country’s supreme court. The opposition boycotted the fresh poll amid sporadic violence and divisive rhetoric. "Kenyans went from high hopes for these elections to many disappointments and confrontations. Kenya remains deeply divided," EU chief observer Marietje Schaake, a Dutch member of the European parliament, told AFP. The report was scathing in its criticism and, unusually, was launched in Brussels, rather than in the country where the election was held.
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