By-elections go smoothly around Kenya
June 12, 2008
Written by kenyanobserver, in KENYA
picture source: R o b e r t o S c h m i d t / A F P / G e t t y I m a g e s)
Voters line up at a polling station in Olmelil
A soldier stands guard at the same polling station
source: Yahoo Canada
Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s ODM party won 3 seats in yesterday’s by-elections while President Mwai Kibaki’s PNU won 2 seats. The ODM party now has 103 seats total while PNU has 104 seats.
Security was tight at the polling stations and the elections were largely peaceful with few minor incidents of skirmishes reported. Thank God for that !
Here are the full results:
I think the peaceful elections held in Kenya yesterday shows improved democracy. People seem To have realised that justice is not brought about by war.