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Political Background Shirikisho Party of Kenya was founded in 1997 and is considered a regional party with particular influence in the coastal region. The party was at its height when the first female presidential candidate ever, Charity Ngilu, stood for the 1997 presidential election on the SDP ticket. Raila Odinga became the new secretary general of the party. www.humanrights.uio.no /forskning/publ/nr/2003/07/nordem_report-Politica.html   (2704 words)

National Rainbow Coalition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In preparation of the 2002 elections, the National Alliance Party of Kenya (NAK) allied itself with the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to form the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC). The National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) is the ruling Kenyan political party, in power since 2002. On December 30, 2002, Mwai Kibaki was sworn in as the third President of Kenya. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Rainbow_Coalition   (135 words)

Polity IV Country Report 2003: Kenya Many of these parties have already complained that Kibaki has tended to favor his own National Alliance Party of Kenya in the distribution of top cabinet positions and worry about any further efforts to weaken their hold on power. Prior to the election of Mwai Kibaki in December 2002, executive recruitment within Kenya was a designative act within the ruling party. While the victory of Kibaki's National Rainbow Coalition in 2002 is a promising sign, nevertheless, ethnic-clientalism may work to undermine the temporary unity displayed to unseat Moi and his KANU government. www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/polity/Ken1.htm   (1211 words)

Kenya Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography Kenya is in the process of rewriting its post-colonial constitution and its subsequent amendments that gave the president nearly unlimited powers and immunity from the law accounting for many of Kenya's current problems with corruption. Kenya is a republic, the President of Kenya is both the chief of state and head of government. Kenya has a two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties and it is therefore difficult to form a government without political coalition. www.variedtastes.com /encyclopedia/Kenya   (2036 words)

News From Africa - English version - LDP influence waning in Nyanza There were claims that he was fronted by the National Alliance Party of Kenya [NAK] faction of NARC to weaken LDP in Nyanza. Equally under scrutiny is the role of LDP's de facto leader Raila Odinga, whose influence has been a deciding factor in elections in Nyanza province since the re-introduction of multiparty politics in 1992. The results of the recently concluded by-election in Kisumu Town West constituency - a stronghold of the Liberal Democratic party {LDP] faction of NARC - has raised doubts on LDP's stranglehold on the politics of Nyanza province. italy.peacelink.org /newsfromafrica/articles/art_5096.html   (987 words)

Issue 13 - Newsletters Two parties, the opposition Kenya African National Union (KANU) and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), led by Raila Odinga, are campaigning for the draft's rejection. Dr Chee, leader of CALD member the Singapore Democratic Party, faces bankruptcy after he was ordered to pay defamation-related damages to Singapore's founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, and his successor, Goh Chok Tong. Kenya will hold its first-ever nationwide referendum vote on new draft constitution on 21 November 2005, paving the way for the controversial text that retains Mwai Kibaki& strong presidential powers. www.liberal-international.org /newsletter.asp?ia_id=1203   (641 words)

"); NewWindow.document.write("IRINnews"); NewWindow.document.write(" One of the key partners in the coalition, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), has incessantly grumbled that it had received a raw deal from the other group, mainly Kibaki's National Alliance Party of Kenya. He appointed Simeon Nyachae, the leader of the opposition Forum for the Restoration of Democracy-People (Ford-People), as energy minister, and brought in Njenga Karume of the former ruling party, the Kenya African National Union (KANU), to be his special programmes minister. KANU's interim chairman, Uhuru Kenyatta, was quoted in the local media as describing Kibaki's cooption of some the party's MPs into government as "poaching", saying the president had appointed individual members of the party, and KANU could not therefore be seen to support the government. www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=41956&SelectRegion=East_Africa&SelectCountry=KENYA   (631 words)

Mail & Guardian Online: Musyoka, who resigned his Cabinet post hours before the rally, is among members of the ruling Kenya African National Union party, or Kanu, who say they will contest upcoming elections under the banner of the opposition Liberal Democratic Party. Kenya's opposition parties, for years crippled by self-inflicted divisions, have promised tens of thousands of chanting supporters they will join forces to break the ruling party's 39-year hold on power. Moi's anointed heir, Uhuru Kenyatta, a relatively inexperienced politician but a son of Kenya's first president, Jomo Kenyatta, was nominated unopposed by party delegates on Monday after a number of senior Kanu members with their own ambitions boycotted the convention, claiming it would be rigged in Kenyatta's favour. www.mg.co.za /articledirect.aspx?area=mg_flat&articleid=10533   (672 words)

Countdown to Kenya's constitutional referendum : Mail & Guardian Online The tug-of-war between the National Alliance Party and the LDP has delayed the delivery of a new Constitution to Kenyans, who were first promised the document within 100 days of Kibaki assuming office. The decision to tamper with the Bomas draft is reportedly motivated by a power struggle between the two main wings of the ruling National Rainbow Coalition (Narc): the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), led by Raila Odinga, and the National Alliance Party of Kenya, which supports President Mwai Kibaki. Civil society groups in Kenya have set their sights on an upcoming referendum in a bid to prevent the government from pushing through an altered version of the country's draft Constitution. www.mg.co.za /articlePage.aspx?articleid=246424&area=/insight/insight__africa   (862 words)

www.businessinafrica.net opinion columns letter from lagos Endgame for political bickering The president is allied to the National Alliance Party of Kenya. The upshot of it was that the controversies surrounding the constitutional review process became the battleground on which the two parties that came together to form the ruling NARC - the Liberal Democratic Party and the National Alliance Party of Kenya - manifested their differences. A loss for the National Alliance Party of Kenya will be a body blow for President Kibaki, who has staked his personal and political reputation on enactment of the new constitution. www.businessinafrica.net /opinion/columns/letters_from_lagos/492920.htm   (950 words)

Kenya Times Newspaper One cannot understand why the politicians allied to the National Alliance Party of Kenya [NAK] and the said government friendly MPs demanding the sacking of cabinet ministers who are opposed to the proposed new constitution. Kenya today may have nothing else to show to the world other than a semblance of peace that is also threatened by the often violent referendum campaigns. This lot will be a drain to the country’s budget for nothing because despite their slim job jurisdictions, their salaries will remain uncorrespondingly hefty. www.timesnews.co.ke /25oct05/editorials/comm1.html   (1006 words)

The Constitution of Kenya Review Commission He said party matters of the National Alliance Party of Kenya (NAK) and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) must not overshadow the delegates and detract them from making a supreme document for posterity. Feeling short-changed, Wambugu added that their struggle to redeem Kenya from the past through the review of the Constitution was not meant to create posts for individuals. This, Wambugu said, must not be the case since the desire for a prime minister in Kenya’s governance emanated from citizens’ views to the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission (CKRC). www.kenyaconstitution.org /docs/news05.htm   (344 words)

Narc parties differ over membership in coalition The National Alliance Party of Kenya has dismissed claimed by the Liberal Democratic party that Narc is a corporate entity. Kibwana said it was not correct for LDP members in the committee to tell the public that Narc remains a corporate political party. Assistant minister Danson Mungatana and Prof Kivutha Kibwana said it was dishonest for LDP to say the committee of eight had agreed that Narc remains open to corporate membership. www.eastandard.net /archives/cl/print/news.php?articleid=2254   (346 words)

Kenya: MPs shield Moi in pension battle MPs allied to the Liberal Democratic Party – many of them rebels who broke away from Kanu– have been pushing for the introduction of an all-powerful Prime Minister similar to the French one while members of the National Alliance (Party) of Kenya favour a premier subordinate to the President. The MPs, speaking at a party to celebrate Kuresoi MP Moses Cheboy's victory in the last General Election, also declared their support for Mr Kenyatta's bid for Kanu chairmanship. It was not clear what prompted their public defence of Mr Moi, but references to the Presidential Retirement Bill suggest they were unhappy over the clause which bars beneficiaries of the pension scheme from participating in politics. www.globalaging.org /pension/world/kenyabattle.htm   (769 words)

AllPuntland News The change was being seen last night as the latest in a series of reverses for the Liberal Democratic Party wing of the Government in its struggle with NAK, which it accuses of reneging on the pre-election pact which set up the National Rainbow Coalition. Mr Koech was one of the Kanu ministers brought into government in the June 30 Cabinet reshuffle in which Mr Musyoka lost the post of Foreign Minister to Mr Ali Mwakwere and the LDP appeared to lose its influence in government. Mr Koech presided over his first assignment on Sunday, during the swearing in of a Somali transitional Parliament at the United Nations headquarters in Gigiri, Nairobi. www.allpuntland.com /news1/eng/news_item.asp?NewsID=1252   (652 words)

Pambazuka News Kenya waged an armed struggle against the colonizer for independence yet escaped the armed conflicts that resulted from either the post-independence leaders turning dictatorial or agents of neo-imperialism staging coups. The constitutional reform crisis in Kenya is as a result of the balance of power being in favour of conservatives and anti-reformers rather than simply the war between NAK and LPD. However, Kenya has one of the largest inequality gaps between the rich and the poor in the world and is perhaps only third to that of South Africa and Brazil. www.pambazuka.org /index.php?id=29007   (1682 words)

SABCnews.com - africa/east_africa The party bigwigs, dubbed the Rainbow Alliance, had already started negotiations with the National Alliance Party of Kenya (NAK), a coalition of the main opposition parties, with a view to forging a united front against Kanu in the December polls, where legislators and local government officials will also be elected. The Kenya African National Union (Kanu) is now almost certain to nominate Uhuru Kenyatta, the Local Government Minister and son of the late Jomo Kenyatta, the founding president, as its flag bearer in a presidential election due in December. The party that has ruled Kenya since independence in 1963 is due to hold a presidential primary tomorrow amid a boycott by leading party dissidents sparked by allegations of rigging and bias. www.sabcnews.com /africa/east_africa/0,2172,44909,00.html   (296 words)

Kisauni heightens NARC wrangles Both president Mwai Kibaki's National Alliance Party of Kenya (NAK) and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) that operates under the direction of Roads and Public Works Minister, Raila Odinga, are spoiling to use the by-election as a proof on whom between them enjoys public support. Mr Yusuf Abubakar, the secretary-general of the Shirikisho Party of Kenya (SPK), who hopes to benefit from the fallout within NARC, told this writer that LDP is at crossroads over Kisauni. But hotheads such as the party secretary for Constitutional Affairs, Mr Otieno Kajwang, and the MP for Bahari, Joe Khamisi, maintained that the coalition is already and LDP should not be the one that is always trying to save it while their partners have already written them off. www.newsfromafrica.org /newsfromafrica/articles/art_7493.html   (846 words)

afrika.no - Kenya: Fresh row erupts over review He was reacting to weekend calls from some of his Cabinet colleagues and MPs allied to the National Alliance (Party) of Kenya (NAK) for President Kibaki to fire him for his stand on the Constitution review. Kenya was at a crossroads, he said, with mistrust prevailing in the Cabinet over both the review and the contentious Memorandum of Understanding between the parties in Narc. National Security minister Chris Murungaru said the Government was ready for any political showdown, amid plans by the Liberal Democratic Party to hold a major rally in Nairobi to protest at delays in implementing the new Constitution. www.afrika.no /Detailed/5700.html   (867 words)

Kenyan elite manoeuvre as war looms in Middle East The Rainbow Alliance, led by Raila Odinga, renamed itself the Liberal Democratic Party and joined the newly formed National Alliance Party of Kenya (NAPK) led by Mwai Kibaki, which was created through a coalition of opposition parties, including the Democratic Party, Forum for the Restoration of Democracy-Kenya (Ford-Kenya) and the National Party of Kenya. None of the issues facing the workers and masses of Kenya are addressed by any party and the political climate is dominated by the squabblings of the ruling elite as it thrashes out how best to defend its privileged position at the expense of the impoverished majority. Energy Minister Raila Odinga and former vice president George Saitoti have, together with a number of government ministers, formed a faction within KANU named the Rainbow Alliance and have begun discussions with opposition parties. www.wsws.org /articles/2002/nov2002/keny-n05_prn.shtml   (1373 words)

The Muslim News Mutula said he had heard that NAK was talking to some people in Kanu with the ultimate aim of forming a government of national unity, but he was not party to the moves. The Nyachae coalition is understood to be excited at the prospect of being part of a government of national unity in the current parliamentary term. He could not confirm alliance building between his party and the Nyachae coalition, but noted that the Kiambu Kanu MPs were "with them", meaning NAK. www.muslimnews.co.uk /pda/news.php?article=6619   (1395 words)

The Sacramento Observer - Online Edition At a meeting at Nairobi's Hilton hotel, the National Rainbow Alliance (NARC) opposition coalition chose Mwai Kibaki as their joint presidential candidate to stand against the ruling KANU party's Uhuru Kenyatta in the upcoming December elections. Kibaki was second in the 1997 elections when he won 31 percent of the vote as head of the Democratic Party, now part of NARC. In the last election, the parties now united under NARC won more than 58 percent of the vote but lost because they were competing against each other. www.sacobserver.com /news/103102/narc_mwai_kibaki.htm   (947 words)

ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Kenya Humanitarian Update Sep 2002 The National Alliance Party of Kenya, that pools 13 political parties is to support Opposition leader and Democratic Party Chairman Mr Mwai Kibaki for Presidency, FORD-Kenya Chairman Kijana Wamalwa as his running mate and NPK Chairperson Ms Charity Ngilu for the yet to be created Prime Minister. Kenya National Union, KANU, is yet to nominate its presidential candidate. Some of the outstanding proposals are creation of two posts of deputy prime minister, the president shall have no executive powers instead he is to carry out special responsibilities including that of national unity and safeguarding the constitution. www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/758364a956f2b5e049256c4f0028494e   (1950 words)

The Future of Corporate Reform The National Alliance Party of Kenya (NAK), a coalition of 13 political parties seeking to form the next government, announced in October that it would not respect the deal. The party accuses the government of being too eager to give the company a go-ahead without contentious issues on the project being sorted out. Tiomin inked the deal with Kenya after a two-year exploration period of deposits estimated to constitute 10 percent of the world's titanium resources. multinationalmonitor.org /mm2002/02oct-nov/oct-nov02front.html   (1305 words)

Human Rights Watch World Report 2003: Africa: Kenya This interference in the process of choosing a new leader divided the ruling Kenya African National Union (KANU), which nevertheless voted to grant Moi sweeping powers within the party upon retirement as president. Kenya is a party to the Mine Ban Treaty, and in December 2001 declared it had a total of 38,774 antipersonnel mines, some three thousand of which would be retained for training. Kenya's two major refugee camp complexes, Kakuma and Dadaab, were plagued with insecurity, incidents of rape and other violent crimes, and a serious reduction in food distribution because of inadequate supplies and donations. www.hrw.org /wr2k3/africa6.html   (2522 words)

Maitha’s death a big blow Maitha, who started his political career as a nominated councillor in 1979 was the National Alliance Party of Kenya [NAK] strongman in its war with the Liberal Democratic Party [LDP], over the control of coast politics. Since he made his parliamentary debut in 1997 on a Democratic Party of Kenya [DP] ticket, he had always wanted to emerge as the spokesman of the Mijikenda, a local coastal community. With a voting power of about 700000, the province abandoned KANU for the first time since 1964 to give NARC 11 out of 21 seats in 2002 general elections compared with 18 seats it gave KANU in 1997. www.newsfromafrica.org /newsfromafrica/articles/art_6890.html   (793 words)

BBC NEWS Africa New Kenyan opposition party formed The main parties involved include the Democratic Party, the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy (Ford-Kenya), Ford-Asili, the National Party of Kenya and the Saba Saba-Asili parties. Mr Mwai Kibaki, the leader of the Democratic Party, told a rally in Mombasa that the intention of the new party was to win power and then unify all parties under one banner. A new opposition political party has been launched in Kenya to fight the ruling Kanu party in presidential and other elections expected this year. news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/africa/2157973.stm   (157 words)

main KSDA has made contact with a retrenched worker resident in the Coastal city of Mombasa who is part of a wider community of 2,000 retrenched workers in Kenya struggling collectively to get their case heard by the new Narc government. Concerns Over Appointment of Dennis Kinyanjui As Kenya’s Ambassador To Scandinavia — 7 Sir Edward Clay’s Anti-corruption Outbursts in Kenya and The Sitaution in Britain. kenyasocialist.org   (887 words)

AfricaFiles Ruling coalition on verge of collapse The parties, which came together ostensibly to dislodge KANU from power, have since failed to agree on a number of issues. However, with the intensity of the wrangles and the offer of a lame duck premiership, the unity within the coalition may remain a pipe dream, to the disillusionment of the voters, who may ultimately be forced to go back to the polls. But as the wrangles within the party continue unabated, the spotlight is on Awori, who claims that the summit has been working behind the scenes to ensure NARC remains united. www.africafiles.org /article.asp?ID=2753   (1363 words)

CHALLENGES 2004-2005: The Kenyan Constitution That Wasn't By Joyce Mulama At the heart of the delay is a power struggle between two parties within the ruling National Rainbow Coalition (NARC): the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the National Alliance Party of Kenya (NAK). Government has also announced that a national referendum on the final draft of the proposed constitution will be held in October next year. These groups are at odds over one of the most important amendments proposed by the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission, namely the creation of a prime minister's post, and the shifting of certain presidential powers to this office. www.chasque.apc.org /ips_eng/notas/2004/12/30/16:13:55.html   (814 words)

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