Odinga also challenged the election result in 2017, when Kenya’s Supreme Court ordered new elections in the country. Even now, there were several ambiguities associated with the vote, and the majority of the country’s election commission members refused to accept the results.
22.8. 15:22•Updated 22.8. 16:58
In Kenya, the country’s presidential election was narrowly contested by the vice president To William Ruto defeated former prime minister Raila Odinga has challenged the election result in the country’s highest court.
Odinga appeals to the ambiguities related to the calculation of election results.
According to him, the election authorities falsified the number of eligible voters in different constituencies so that Ruto would get the necessary majority of votes.
In addition, the Election Commission of Kenya did not count the results of 27 constituencies at all.
In the elections, Ruto received 50.5 percent of the votes and Odinga 48.8.
Odinga has run for president four times before and lost the elections each time.
Odinga has previously claimed that there were ambiguities related to the elections.
He also challenged the election result in the Supreme Court in 2017, when the Supreme Court defended him and ordered new elections in the country.
More than 1,200 people were killed in election-related riots in 2007 and more than a hundred in 2017.
Odinga’s supporters have rioted in different parts of the country after the election results were announced.
The president of Kenya leads one of the most significant economic powers in the entire continent, where large companies such as General Electric, Uber and Google keep their East African headquarters.
In addition, Kenya is a major military power in the region, and its soldiers participate in peacekeeping operations in Somalia, for example.