Another ethnic scramble

A well-intentioned reform threatens the country's regional parties and alliances

The political parties are waking up to the potentially ruinous implications of the new Political Parties Act. Passed into law in the run-up to last year's ill-fated general election, it comes into effect on 1 January 2009. Its main purpose was to make the parties, hitherto little more than ethnic vehicles for Big Man ambitions, reflect a national outlook.

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Kalonzo Musyoka, Raila Odinga, Ababu Namwamba, Amos Kimunya, Cyrus Jirongo, Daniel Toroitich arap Moi, Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi, Rift Valley Challenge, Mwai Kibaki, Isaac Ruto, Kipkalya Kones, Gideon, William Ruto, Martha Karua, Uhuru Kenyatta, George Saitoti

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