The battle now goes to the 2022 elections

The undoubted highlight of the Building Bridges Initiative report seems to be the proposal to establish the position of the prime minister to be appointed by the president from among members of the political party that commands majority support in the National Assembly. A section of the media has likened this proposal to the position of the prime minister that resulted from the power-sharing deal in a government where Mwai Kibaki was already declared as the elected president, and which ended up being occupied by his challenger and leader of the Orange Democratic Movement Raila Odinga.

While the pathway to the proposed premiership is identical to the one in the mediation deal, the premiership of that time did not derive its legitimacy from a presidential appointment but from circumstances of having run for president in a contest with Kibaki.