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Ruto announces party elections as 2027 realignments take shape

President William Ruto inspects a guard of honour in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, ahead of the Africa Food Systems Forum. [Joshua Maxwell Agwanda, Standard]

President William Ruto has announced that the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) will hold party elections in December this year in a move that is set to excite the political scene and cause ripples within the ruling party.

The President, while launching a UDA regional office in Nyeri on Saturday, said the elections will start at the grassroots level. Should they run successfully, the party will be the first one to conduct internal elections since the implementation of the Political Parties Act 2011.

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