Presidential election in Kenya: the country suspended from the decision of the Supreme Court
A polling station in the elementary school of Old Kibra, August 9, 2022. © RFI / Laura-Angela Bagnetto
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The Supreme Court's decision on the presidential election is expected on Monday.
William Ruto, outgoing vice-president was narrowly declared the winner on August 15, but Raila Odinga, his rival, supported by the outgoing head of state, denounced fraud.
Will the 7 judges cancel William Ruto's victory or confirm it?
Order a second round, or even a new election as in 2017?
After 3 days of hearings, these judges withdrew this weekend to deliberate.
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With our correspondent in Nairobi,
Florence Morice
The Supreme Court has identified nine questions raised by
the various appeals it has received
, and which it sees having to answer during its verdict.
Its seven judges will in particular have to say whether the computer system of the Electoral Commission met the standards of “integrity, security and transparency” provided for by the Constitution or whether its servers could have been hacked.
The Odinga camp has indeed claimed that intruders would have entered it to replace certain results reports with forms with facilitated forms.
The Court therefore asked last week to examine these servers.
The ballots of about forty polling stations were also recounted.
Another issue that occupied the debates: participation.
The Odinga camp accuses the commission of having provided contradictory figures and of having played on this variable to force the victory of William Ruto narrowly in the first round.
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The judges will also have to say whether or not the process of compiling and announcing the results was done according to the terms of the Constitution.
A thorny question insofar as four commissioners
dissociated themselves from these results
even before their announcement, accusing the president of the commission of having excluded them from the final count, when on the contrary he assured him that he had done his "
duty
" despite the "
pressures
".
On Sunday, William Ruto announced that he would respect the court's decision.
"
All Kenyans are equal before the law
," he said.
On Friday, Raila Odinga's running mate, Martha Karua, also assured that her coalition would respect the verdict.
“
We want to maintain peace, but to achieve this there must be justice because peace without justice is not sustainable
,” said Martha Karua.
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To read also: Kenya: William Ruto declared winner with 50.49% by the President of the Electoral Commission
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