{"id":9055,"date":"2017-09-01T05:22:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T09:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=9055"},"modified":"2017-09-01T05:28:36","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T09:28:36","slug":"kenya-presidential-election-cancelled-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/09\/01\/kenya-presidential-election-cancelled-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya presidential election cancelled by Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kenya’s Supreme Court has annulled the result of the last month’s presidential election.<\/p>\n

Citing irregularities, Chief Justice David Maraga said a new vote should be held within 60 days.<\/p>\n

The election commission had declared incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta the winner of the election by a margin of 1.4 million votes.<\/p>\n

But the opposition argued that the commission’s IT system had been hacked to manipulate the results.<\/p>\n

The BBC’s Caroline Karobia in Nairobi says Kenya has made history as the first country in Africa to annul presidential election.<\/p>\n

Reading the ruling – reached by a majority of four to two among the judges – Justice Maraga said the 8 August poll had not been “conducted in accordance with the constitution”.<\/p>\n

After the announcement, opposition supporters were seen celebrating outside the court building, as well as in opposition strongholds.<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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