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On August 15, the electoral commission announced that Deputy President William Ruto had won the 2022 presidential election following a close, tense race. The commission gave the count as 50.49 per cent for Ruto against rival Raila Odinga's 48.85. This was immediately disputed by Raila's campaign and four of the seven electoral commissioners, who described the final tallying process as "opaque".
As he had done in 2013 and 2017, Raila petitioned the Supreme Court. He alleged several irregularities, including fraud, voter suppression and impunity by the commission's chair, Wafula Chebukati. He claimed that Chebukati had breached the Constitution and acted unilaterally.
A unanimous judgment, read out by Chief Justice Martha Koome on September 5, rejected all these claims. Accordingly, Ruto will be officially sworn in this Tuesday, September 13, as the fifth president of Kenya, East Africa's most stable democracy.
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