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Can Tanzania's opposition challenge Samia Suluhu Hassan's 97 victory · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Tanzania's President, Asamiya Asulu Hu Hassan has received an election
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  Speaker 1: win a certificate from the country's electoral authorities. And that's
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  Speaker 1: an official and public acknowledgment of an election victory that
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  Speaker 1: has proven controversial. At the ceremony in the administrative capital, Dodoma,
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  Speaker 1: Hassan said it's time to unite the country. The Electoral
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  Speaker 1: Commission said she won around ninety seven percent of the vote.
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  Speaker 1: The elections had been marred by deadly violence. Demonstrators took
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  Speaker 1: to the streets to protest the exclusion of Hassan's main challenges.
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  Speaker 1: The opposition says hundreds of people were killed by police
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  Speaker 1: in the unrest. The government denies use of excessive force. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Deogratius Munishi speaks for Tanzania's main opposition party, Chadema, which
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  Speaker 1: was barred from the election. He joined us earlier from
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  Speaker 1: Nairobi in Kenya to share his take on the president's
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  Speaker 1: ninety seven percent election victory.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for having me and as our reaction as a
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  Speaker 2: party to what has been declared as electoral results today,
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  Speaker 2: he is very clear since there are no elector reforms
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  Speaker 2: as demanded by Tanzanians, and since Tanzanians are in streets
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  Speaker 2: and not in the polling stations on the twenty ninth
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  Speaker 2: of October, and it is clear that there was no
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  Speaker 2: election on twenty ninth and therefore the results announced today
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  Speaker 2: are a total fraud. And therefore the winner or whoever
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  Speaker 2: claims to be the winner is not a really winner
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  Speaker 2: because she has not been chosen by Tanzanians since they
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  Speaker 2: didn't vote for her.
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  Speaker 1: So will you attempt to challenge the result? Will you
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  Speaker 1: actively try to challenge the result?
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  Speaker 2: Unfortunately, as part the legal framework of Tanzania, when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to elections, you cannot challenge any results declared by
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  Speaker 2: the Electoral Commission, and this is part of what we
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  Speaker 2: are pushing for a wider or larger part of electoral
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  Speaker 2: reforms so that electoral results can be challenged in the
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  Speaker 2: port offlow. But as of now, as the existing laws,
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  Speaker 2: you cannot challenge electoral presidential electoral results has announced today
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  Speaker 2: and therefore the only way to challenge these results is
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  Speaker 2: by the we the power the people, which is already
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  Speaker 2: in streets as you have had because exactly they don't
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  Speaker 2: want solute and the hypatia.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you've mentioned already the protests also over the
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  Speaker 1: past few days now we hear that those protests have
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  Speaker 1: been violently crushed. What can you tell us about this?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, heavy force has been used by security forces, especially
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  Speaker 2: the police force of Tanzania to crush the process. And
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  Speaker 2: as we speak now there are hundreds of casualties, life
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  Speaker 2: threatening casuality. With the injuries who have been left behind
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  Speaker 2: and the reports we are gathering on the ground, there
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  Speaker 2: are many people who have died and for sure these
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  Speaker 2: are in the level of atrocity. So there is what
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  Speaker 2: we can see as crimes against humanity and the anti
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  Speaker 2: internety is able to come back in and we establish
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  Speaker 2: the exactly figure. But the reposts we have already from
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  Speaker 2: the grounds from our local leaders. The figures are above
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  Speaker 2: eight hundred and fifty. This is of today and those
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  Speaker 2: are estimate figures. We have money to collect from the ground.
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  Speaker 1: So how safe? How safe are you? Because you are
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  Speaker 1: talking to us now from Kenya, what do you hear
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  Speaker 1: from colleagues and how concerned are they those who are
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  Speaker 1: still in Tanzania for their safety? Are they safe?
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  Speaker 2: No one is safe in Tanzania. Everyone is in hiding.
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  Speaker 2: As you can imagine, before twenty ninth, the wave of
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  Speaker 2: abductions that was being carried by security agency against our members,
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  Speaker 2: our party leaders. Before the twenty ninth you could imagine
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  Speaker 2: the wave of arrest that was being carried out in
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  Speaker 2: Tanzania for our party leaders. And as we speak here
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  Speaker 2: right now, our is still in detention. The vice chairman
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  Speaker 2: for our party is still in detention for crimes or
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  Speaker 2: offenses that are known to anybody. So just to reply
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  Speaker 2: to your nobody is safe in Tanzania.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we wish you all the best. We'll certainly keep
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  Speaker 1: an eye on the events and how they unfold. Deogratius
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  Speaker 1: Munichi there from Tanzania's main opposition party, Hatima speaking to
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  Speaker 1: us from Kenya at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so very much, thanks for having me