Kenya’s Rescheduled Elections Are a Triumph of Constitutionalism—but How Much Has Really Changed?
Source: The Nation
The country is now a tinderbox, in which supporters of the rival factions believe they can lose only if the other side rigs the results.
Nairobi—The celebrations are over, and the cold reality is dawning that the historic Supreme Court nullification of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s August 8 election victory presented only a temporary respite from Kenya’s toxic ethnic politics.
The repeat elections ordered by the Supreme Court have been scheduled for October 17, but already, familiar battle lines have been drawn. Veteran opposition campaigner Raila Odinga’s National Super Alliance, or NASA, vows that it will not take part in polls overseen by the same Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) indicted by the Supreme Court ruling.