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Kenya’s outgoing Deputy President William Ruto said he was confident in winning the elections and believed the east African state was a “democratic nation” and that the election would not be not be tampered with and conducted in a peaceful way.
In the last presidential election in 2017, an appeal by Odinga, who believed his victory had been stolen amid high tensions and violence, led to the election being annulled by the Supreme Court – a first in Africa – and then rescheduled.
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Asked how he would react if he lost, Mr. Ruto said that the the election would be peaceful. He elaborated that the elections no longer were contested on ethnicities. Kenya, he said, had largely managed to pull away from the usual competition around ethnicities. Kenyan elections have been marked on several occasions by violence, particularly ethnic violence.
