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Ruto squeezes the budget before the vote

Fuel price hikes and a tougher tax regime are testing how far the government can push voters before anger spills back onto the streets

President William Ruto has told allies he expects to win the 2027 general election ‘with a two to three million vote margin,’ confident that his record of international grandstanding and commissioning new projects will mobilise the voters. But the political arithmetic is less comfortable from street level. It’s being tested in two important ways: fuel price rises caused by the United States-Israeli war with Iran and tough measures in the new Finance Bill.

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