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Kenyan main opposition stresses decision to boycott repeat election
23 Octobre 2017
Nairobi, Kenya, October 23 (Infosplusgabon) - Kenyan opposition coalition leaders met foreign diplomats to discuss the pending presidential election on Thursday and insisted the opposition was not prepared to relent on its position to boycott.
The National Super Alliance (NASA) campaign manager and principal, Musalia Mudavadi, said on Monday the NASA leadership met with a section of the diplomatic community in Nairobi to discuss the pending presidential election.
The opposition said the meeting took place at the request of the diplomats and focused on the political situation in the run-up to 26 Oct when the election is supposed to be held in Kenya.
Ambassadors from the US, UK, EU, Norway and Denmark, at the meeting, tried to convince the opposition leaders to participate in the repeat poll.
Mudavadi said in a statement the NASA reiterated the position that the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission was not ready to conduct free, fair and credible election.
"This has been confirmed by Dr. Roselyn Akombe who resigned from the Commission last week and IEBC chairman, Mr. Wafula Chebukati, in his address to the nation also last week," Mudavadi said.
"We made it clear that if the electoral commission itself is not confident of conducting credible polls, it follows that the said election can only be sham election that NASA shall not be part of."
Mudavadi said the alliance reaffirmed its position to the country and the international community at large and its supporters, in particular, that the election scheduled for 26 Oct. does not meet the conditions deduced from the Supreme Court ruling.
He said the conditions set by the coalition, including the subsequent irreducible minimums that it shared both with IEBC and the public had not been complied with.
Mudavadi said three days to the election there is nothing that can change in the electoral infrastructure.
"Our position is final that we do not recognize the election scheduled for 26 October and we shall not participate in it because it doesn’t serve the country’s interest," Mudavadi added.
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