Kenya: Kibaki /Raila Rally MPs Over Draft

12 January 2010

Nairobi — President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga have started rallying their forces to try and get a consensus on the draft constitution.

Yesterday, the two separately held meetings with their parties' representatives in the consensus building committee established to iron out the differences both sides have over the system of government and power sharing between the President and Prime Minister. While Kibaki's PNU has been rooting for a purely presidential system of government with an executive president in charge of government, Raila's ODM is rooting for a parliamentary system of government with a powerful Prime Minister and a ceremonial president.

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