Reneging on Promises (Politics)
Kibaki Failure to Reform Post Election
Mwai Kibaki had allied for the 2002 elections with Kalonzo Musyoka and Raila Odinga (among others) to form the National Rainbow Coalition in order to campaign against the incumbent (and corrupt) KANA/PANU (Arap Moi and Kenyatta's party).
However (LRB 24 Jan 2008, p. 26):
Once in power, Kibaki's clique reneged on promises of ministerial appointments for other members of the coalition. They sabotaged constitutional reforms that would have weakened the powers of the presidency and a watered-down draft constitution that left the influence of central government intact was eventually subject of a referendum in 2005. ... In order to shore up parliamentary support after the referendum [which he lost], Kibaki made an alliance with KANU and its unpopular but wealthy former leaders.
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Start: 2002
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- Source
- LRB 2008-01-24 p.26
- License
- CC-BY
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