Tanzania’s populist President John Magufuli sworn in for second term despite calls for re-election

Tanzania : Tanzania’s populist President John Magufuli has been declared into the service for a second five-year term between tight protection by the police and the army.
The oat ceremony on Thursday occurred despite the opposition asking for a fresh vote, the disbandment of the electoral board and an “unending calm protests” over the October 28 vote.
Magufuli over the weekend announced he would not seek another term between concerns that the presidential party, which gained nearly all parliament seats, might try to prolong the presidency’s two-term limit.
Ahead of the swearing-in, leaders of Tanzania’s two major opposition parties, ACT Wazalendo and CHADEMA, were filled with building illegal assembly and protests.
The opposition affirms the October 28 election was riddled with inconsistencies.
Magufuli won with 12.5 million – or 85 percent – of the total ballots castest, while his chief challenger, CHADEMA’S Tundu Lissu, got 1.9 million or just 13 percent of the total vote share, the electoral commission declared.
After the slide events were declared, CHADEMA and fellow opposition party ACT Wazalendo requested for new choices and mass demonstrations.
But police quickly captured the parties’ leaders, while a massive security presence prevented possible demonstrators and the protests never took the position.
CHADEMA’s Tundu Lissu, ACT Wazalendo’s leader Zitto Kabwe, and several other opposition leaders were detained this week.
Kabwe had demanded a panel of African leaders to review “large-scale infringements” throughout the elections.
Numerous nations, including the United States, recorded credible charges that call the vote’s events – and the country’s democratic goals – into question. Few global spectators were entitled to watch the option.
Magufuli’s CCM party, a version of which has operated power in Tanzania since liberation from Britain in 1961, has also maintained control in the semi-autonomous Indian Ocean archipelago of Zanzibar with 76 percent of the vote.
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