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The politics of Kenya take place in a framework of a presidential republic, whereby the president is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system in accordance with a new constitution passed in 2010. Executive power is exercised by the executive branch of government, headed by the President, who chairs the cabinet ...
July 24, 2024 at 8:05 AM. NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s president on Wednesday incorporated the opposition in his new Cabinet, appointing four ministers from the main opposition party in a bid ...
The Jubilee Party of Kenya is a major political party in Kenya. It was the country's ruling party from 2016 to 13 September 2022. The party was founded on 8 September 2016, following the merger of 11 smaller parties. During the 2017 election, the Jubilee Party secured a plurality of seats in Parliament and the party leader, Uhuru Kenyatta, was ...
The Kenya Finance Bill protests, widely known by #RejectFinanceBill2024, or Gen Z protests, were a series of decentralized mass protests in Kenya against tax increases proposed by the Government of Kenya in the Finance Bill 2024. [11] Following the storming of the Kenyan Parliament, president William Ruto reportedly rejected the Bill on 28 June ...
Mwai Kibaki. Emilio Stanley Mwai Kibaki[needs IPA] CGH [1] (15 November 1931 – 21 April 2022) [2] was a Kenyan politician who served as the third President of Kenya from December 2002 until April 2013. He served in various leadership positions in Kenya's government including being the longest serving Member of Parliament (MP) in Kenya from ...
Edwin Watenya Sifuna (born 22 May 1982) is a Kenyan politician and the current Senator of Nairobi County after being elected in the 2022 Kenyan general election. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He is the Secretary-General of the ODM Party and the deputy minority whip in the Senate of Kenya .
The Kenyan National Assembly is the lower house of the Kenyan legislature. It consists of 350 members, comprising 290 members elected from single-member constituencies, 47 woman representatives elected from each county, 1200 members nominated by the political parties, and the speaker of the assembly who is elected by the assembly and serves as an ex-officio member.
Mazingira Green Party of Kenya. Green politics. 1997. Formerly known as the Liberal Party of Kenya. National Rainbow Coalition – Kenya. N/A. 2005. Created after the 2005 Kenyan constitutional referendum. National Labour Party.