Kenya: Voters Peg Hopes on New Electoral Body

18 October 2011

As President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga get down to selecting the nine-member team that will conduct next year's elections, Kenyans will be waiting for an electoral body that will overcome the challenges experienced in the 2007 polls.

The then Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) was disbanded for bungling the 2007 presidential poll, which was seen as a trigger for the post-election violence that followed. Kenyans, as a result, lost trust in the electoral system as the ECK failed to figure out if President Kibaki had fairly won the election.

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