Ruto received 50.49% of the vote and a narrow lead of 200,000 votes over his main opponent, former Prime Minister Raila Odinga. The elections are characterized by low turnout and a tense six-day wait for the results to be announced.
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So far Vice President of Kenya, William Ruthwon the elections of the past day 9 with 7.17 million votes (50.49%), according to results released Monday by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEBC). His main opponent, the former prime minister and leader of the opposition, Raila Odinga, won 48.85% of the vote (6.94 million votes), just over 200,000 votes less than Ruto.
Far behind, in third and fourth place in the presidential election, were lawyers George Wajackoyah (nearly 62,000 votes) and David Mwaure (nearly 32,000).
“In accordance with the Constitution and the law, the President of IEBC hereby declares that Ruto William Samoei has been duly elected President of the Republic of Kenya,” Wafula Chebukati, Chairman of the IEBC Election Commission, announced at the complex. electoral counting center is located approximately 10 kilometers from the center of Nairobi. The Commission has been late six days to report results.
Just before the announcement there is one fight between several representatives of Odinga’s party who prevented Chebukati from taking the stage. Finally, and after the intervention of the army, Chebukati was able to make the statement. Previously, four IEBC commissioners (made up of seven commissioners and the president), including her vice president, Juliana Cherera, have distanced themselves from the election results, as the calculation was done in an “opaque” manner.
The elections took place last Tuesday, August 9, on a generally calm day with a vote of just over 65%.
Ruto (55) ran for the first time to lead the Kenya Kwanza coalition (Kenya First, in Swahili), while Odinga (77) elected for the fifth time, this time with the support of the outgoing president, Uhuru. Kenyatta.
Unless prevented by a possible judicial dispute of the results, Ruto de fifth president of the country since its independence from the United Kingdom in 1963 and will replace Uhuru Kenyatta, who will leave power after exhausting the second and final five-year term allowed by the constitution.
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Source: EITB
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