Panel this morning consisting of two distinguished journalists who have been in kenya following the campaign and the election in kenya. I will introduce them in just a minute. My name is mark, i am a Senior Advisor for africa here at csis. Some years ago i was ambassador in my nairobi and i had the opportunity to spend several years there prior to this years election. I want to start off with a few remarks and then turn to our gas. As all of you know, this week, some 1 15 million kenyans went to the polls to elect members of parliament, to elect 49 counties in this was a remarkable event, if only because of the thousands of Campaign Appearances by different candidates because of the passionate participation being such a large part of the electorate and also because of the technological sophistication of this process including the speedy electronic tallying of votes on election day. As you all know, incumbent president one the presidency by a margin of victory that was larger than predi
Welcome to our kenyan election review. We did a kenyan election preview. I am not sure many of our forecasts or predictions came to pass which is maybe a good thing. I will introduce, very happy that we have a panel this morning consisting of two distinguished journalists who have been in kenya following the campaign in kenya and i will introduce them in just a moment. My name is mark bellamy, Senior Advisor for africa at csi us, ambassador in nairobi, i had the good fortune to spend several weeks in nairobi prior to this year at the election. I want to start with a few opening remarks to frame this mornings discussion and turn to our guests. As all of you in this room know, last week 15 million canyons went to the polls to elect a president , to elect members of parliament, to elect governors to 49 counties and a number of other officeholders. By any standard and certainly by african standards this was a remarkable event. If only because of the thousands of Campaign Appearances by dif
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