2013 Kenyan general elections

[Nhoj]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenyan_general_election,_2013

The presidential race is going to be close between Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga. [the sons of the first president and the first vice president respectively.]  Latest polls have the race tied, so the prospect of a repeat of 2007 is there and all that brings.

[Nhoj]

Here is a live blog of the results coming in. Kenyatta leads right now but it may just be from areas hes strong in.
http://elections.nation.co.ke/news/-/1631868/1710562/-/osje07z/-/index.html

[tmthforu94]

My whole family has a particular interest in Kenya, with several having been there, plus we have a Kenyan currently staying with us. Will be watching these results closely.

[palandio]

Could someone (Nhoj?) please give me a hint at the differences between the parties? E.g.
- Economic ideology
- Ideas about the form of government
- Regional/ethnic cleavages

I hope that these questions don't come over as completely ignorant ;-)
Thank you!

[Hash]

Politics in Kenya are basically 100% ethnic alliances/politics and 0% ideological (and also 100% corrupt and nepotistic)

Uhuru Kenyatta/William Ruto are the Kikuyu/Kalenjin alliance
Raila Odinga/Kalonzo Musyoka are the Luo/Kamba alliance with Luhya support
Musalia Mudavadi is the third candidate who might or might not be a big factor, he is also a Luhya candidate

I'll have a more decent explanation when I do my blog post on this [/shameless plug]

[Famous Mortimer]

While there's no ideological difference, I think most outsiders can get behind Odinga just because he was robbed last time.

[Sol]

I'll have a more decent explanation when I do my blog post on this [/shameless plug]

I look forward to it. I've been addicted your blog for a while now.

[Paleobrazilian]

If Kenyatta is elected, will he keep appearing at the ICC? And would the ICC's prosecutor issue an arrest and surrender order against him to avoid an al-Bashir 2.0?

[Paleobrazilian]

Kenyatta has won, it has been reported.

[Gary J]

From the BBC

[Gary J]

That went well ...

What I meant to say was that the BBC report, I just saw, confirmed Mr Odinga was going to challenge the result. He has a week to take the challenge to the Supreme Court, which then has a couple of weeks to rule on it.