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Kenya: Uhuru Kenyatta declared winner of Kenya’s repeat presidential election
Kenya’s incumbent president Uhuru Kenyatta was declared on Monday the winner of the presidential election — for the second time this year.
Kenyatta received nearly 7.5 million votes in the repeated vote, held last week, the national elections commission announced.
Kenyatta also won the first election, in August, by 1.4 million votes. But the opposition leader, Raila Odinga, challenged the results, and the Supreme Court nullified the election in September, citing irregularities.
Kenyatta says he expects his opponents to mount legal challenges to his victory. He said Monday after the election commission announced results from the October 26 vote that his victory “is likely to once again be subjected to a constitutional test through our courts.”
Kenyatta says the opposition is entitled to take their case to court, and that he will consider dialogue with his opponents after the outcome of any court proceedings.
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