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Campaign for Kenya's Presidency to Officially Start

The campaign for Kenya's presidency will officially kick off on Monday when the presidential candidates of both the ruling and opposition parties start to register themselves as candidates with the Electoral Commission.


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The campaign for Kenya's presidency will officially kick off on Monday when the presidential candidates of both the ruling and opposition parties start to register themselves as candidates with the Electoral Commission.

The process will take two days that ends on Tuesday, and nine parties out of the 51 registered political parties have offered presidential candidate for the Dec. 27 general elections.

For the first time since Kenya introduced multi-party system in1991, the ruling Kenya African National Union (KANU) will present a new presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta, with Kenyan PresidentDaniel arap Moi due to retire in January next year.

Other main front-runners in the presidential race will be Mwai Kibaki of the National Rainbow Coalition, an umbrella body of opposition forces, and Simeon Nyachae who leads a separate opposition alliance, the Kenya People's Coalition.

Kenyatta, 42, son of founding president Jomo Kenyatta, and Kibaki, 71, a former vice president, will on Monday hand in their nomination documents to the Electoral Commission.

The two candidates will then hold what are expected to be hugepolitical rallies at two separate locations in Nairobi.

Nyachae, 70, will formally register as a candidate on Tuesday along with other less prominent hopefuls, including James Orengo from the Social Democratic Party, Ford Asili's Martin Shikuku and Stephen Omondi Oludhe of the Economic Independent Party.

Since 1991, Kenya has witnessed two general elections, one in 1992 and the other in 1997, with KANU and Moi winning both.


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