Countdown to Kenya's election begins as presidential candidates present nomination documents

Record ID: 877033

  • Title: Countdown to Kenya's election begins as presidential candidates present nomination documents
  • Date: 28th May 2017
  • Summary: NAIROBI, KENYA (MAY 28, 2017) (REUTERS) ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** KENYA’S OPPOSITION PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE RAILA ODINGA AND RUNNING MATE KALONZO MUSYOKA ARRIVING VARIOUS OF ODINGA AND MUSYOKA BEING VERIFIED BY OFFICIALS FROM INDEPENDENT ELECTORAL AND BOUNDARIES COMMISSION (IEBC) IEBC OFFICIALS CHECKING DOCUMENTS ODINGA AND MUSYOKA SHAKING HANDS WITH IEBC COMMITTEE VARIOUS OF ODINGA AND MUSYOKA SEATED WITH IEBC OFFICIALS MUSYOKA HOLDING NOMINATION DOCUMENT ODINGA SIGNING DOCUMENT (SOUNDBITE) (English) KENYA'S OPPOSITION PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, RAILA ODINGA, SAYING: "We want to give an assurance that our campaigns are going to be very peaceful and at the end of the day we also expect that it's going to be a fair contest. In any contest there will be winners and there will be losers. We have said that if we are defeated we will accept if it's fair. We hope that we will not have to have a situation where we have to go to court. We hope that the commission is going to be fair and ensure a free fair independent election process. That is what Kenyans expect, Kenyans do not expect anything like a rigged election anymore." VARIOUS OF ODINGA AND MUSYOKA HOLDING NOMINATION DOCUMENT ODINGA AND MUSYOKA LEAVING PREMISES WITH SUPPORTERS
  • Embargoed: 11th June 2017 13:19
  • Keywords: countdown begins nomination documents presidential election
  • Location: NAIROBI, KENYA
  • City: NAIROBI, KENYA
  • Country: Kenya
  • Topics: Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016IR4M6F
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: ****NOTE TO EDITOR: AUDIO AS INCOMING****
    Kenyan opposition politician Raila Odinga and his running mate Kalonzo Musyoka on Sunday (May 28) presented their election documents to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) ahead of the presidential election in August.
    Odinga, who comes from one of Kenya's most powerful political families, will try to unseat President Uhuru Kenyatta, the wealthy son of the country's first president and head of the ruling Jubilee party, who is seeking a second term.
    It is Odinga's fourth time as a presidential candidate. The veteran politician was nominated by a group of other leaders who also had presidential ambitions and came together to form the National Super Alliance, known by its acronym NASA.
    Kenyans go to the polls on August 8 to elect a president, lawmakers and local officials. Devolution means that many of the local races to control lucrative county budgets are expected to be closely fought.
    The last elections in 2013 were largely peaceful but the country is still haunted by the two months of violence that followed the disputed 2007 presidential poll, when political protests rapidly spilled into ethnic bloodletting. More than 1,200 people were killed and 600,000 fled their homes.
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