The ruling is a key demonstration of the independence of Kenya’s judiciary
, since Mr. Ruto’s campaign had been strongly opposed by President Uhuru Kenyatta, who had endorsed his rival candidate, Raila Odinga.
He is also a staunch Christian, and his religious views have alarmed some analysts, who worry that he could jeopardize women’s rights. In debates over Kenya’s new constitution in 2010, he opposed a provision that allowed abortions under limited circumstances. After failing to defeat Mr. Kenyatta, he was endorsed by his former rival in a famous handshake in 2018, but it was not enough to secure victory last month. In the official results, Mr. Ruto won a razor-thin margin of 50.5 per cent, compared to 48.9 per cent for Mr. Odinga.
On the day when the official results were announced last month, four dissident election commissioners held a news conference to disown the results. They said the vote-tallying process was opaque and mathematically implausible. But observers quickly noticed that the dissident commissioners had made a basic error in their mathematical calculations.
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