{"id":103,"date":"2013-03-17T09:03:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T09:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/?p=103"},"modified":"2019-08-07T10:23:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T10:23:19","slug":"raila-odinga-to-challenge-his-election-loss-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"Raila Odinga to challenge his election loss in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>17 March 2013<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0Defeated presidential contender Raila Odinga to challenge his election loss in court on Saturday alleging widespread ballot rigging in a fresh test of Kenyan democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Odinga&#8217;s complaint threatens to prolong the period of political uncertainty in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>Odinga, head of the CORD coalition, refuses to accept the slim first-round election win by Uhuru Kenyatta, who has been indicted by the International Criminal Court over the explosion of bloodshed in 2007 that left more than 1,200 people dead.<\/p>\n<p>The March 4 election and aftermath was largely peaceful by contrast. Kenyatta declared the vote &#8220;free and fair&#8221; in his victory acceptance speech, though he added that the electoral process could be made more refined and efficient in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Odinga&#8217;s petition alleges widespread rigging and accuses the IEBC of inflating voter registration numbers and going ahead with the election aware that its systems were going to fail.<\/p>\n<p>Kenyatta comfortably beat Odinga in terms of votes won, 50.07 percent versus 43.28 percent, but only narrowly avoided a run-off after winning just 8,100 votes more than the 50 percent needed to be declared the winner outright.<\/p>\n<p>That slim margin has given Odinga allies confidence that they can force a run-off through the courts, though the petition calls for the whole process to be declared null and void.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17 March 2013 &#8211;\u00a0Defeated presidential contender Raila Odinga to challenge his election loss in court&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,96,205,1],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-elections","category-politics","category-uncategorized","tag-spotlight"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.ipan.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Raila-Amolo-Odinga.jpg?fit=522%2C489","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipan.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}