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Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete (born 7 October 1950) is a Tanzanian politician who was the fourth president of Tanzania, in office from 2005 to 2015. Prior to his election as president, he was the Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1995 to 2005 under his predecessor, Benjamin Mkapa.
Jakaya Kikwete became President of Tanzania on 21 December 2005 following the 2005 Tanzanian general election. Kikwete was president for 10 years and ended his tenure on 5 November 2015, the following is a list of international presidential trips made by Jakaya Kikwete while in office.
The first inauguration of Jakaya Kikwete as the 4th president of Tanzania took place on Wednesday, 21 December 2005. It marked the commencement of the first five-year term of Jakaya Kikwete as President and Ali Mohamed Shein as Vice President. Kikwete won the 2005 presidential election by a landslide receiving 80.28 percent of the popular vote.
A referendum on the new constitution was scheduled to take place on 30 April 2015. In late March, Jakaya Kikwete, the president of Tanzania, warned that the lead-up to the referendum was seeing increased tensions between Muslims and Christians that could lead to an increase in violence between followers of the two religions. [5]
Jakaya Kikwete, its presidential candidate in 2005, won by a landslide, receiving more than 80% of the popular vote and John Magufuli as a candidate in 2020 garnered over 84% of the vote. In the 2010 election, the CCM won 186 of the 239 constituencies , continuing to hold an outright majority in the National Assembly .
Family of Jakaya Kikwete. Jakaya Kikwete. The family of Jakaya Kikwete refers to the family of the 4th President of Tanzania. His immediate family is the First Family of Tanzania. [1]
The second inauguration of Jakaya Kikwete as the 4th president of Tanzania took place on Saturday, 6 November 2010. The inauguration marked the beginning of the second and final term of Jakaya Kikwete as President and Mohamed Gharib Bilal as Vice President. [1] [2]
On 6 April 2012 President Jakaya Kikwete appointed the former Attorney General and Prime Minister Joseph Warioba as its chairman and the former Chief Justice Augustino Ramadhani as its vice chairman. The Commission was expected to complete its task by October 2013, [3] with an estimated cost of TSh 40 billion during the 2012/13 fiscal year.