Tanzania counts votes as opposition claims fraud

AFP, DAR ES SALAAM: Votes were being counted Monday in what is expected to be Tanzania’s tightest election race ever, with the governing party facing the first major challenge to its dominance in decades.
But the opposition Chadema party have alleged fraud in Sunday’s presidential, general and local elections.
“There are allegations of electoral fraud,” Chadema spokesman Tumaini
Makene told reporters late Sunday.
John Magufuli of the long-ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) is seen as the narrow favourite to beat ex-prime minister Edward Lowassa, a CCM stalwart who recently defected to Chadema, which is heading a
coalition of opposition parties.

 

Tanzania counts votes as opposition claims fraud

AFP, DAR ES SALAAM: Votes were being counted Monday in what is expected to be Tanzanias tightest election race ever, with the governing party facing the first major challenge to its dominance in decades. But the opposition Chadema party have alleged fraud in Sundays presidential, general and local elections. There are allegations of electoral fraud, Chadema spokesman Tumaini Makene told reporters late Sunday. John Magufuli of the long-ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) is seen as the narrow favourite to beat ex-prime minister Edward Lowassa, a CCM stalwart who recently defected to Chadema, which is heading a coalition of opposition parties.