Chadema, the main opposition party, as well as five other smaller parties are boycotting the local government elections.
Tanzania on Sunday held local government elections, viewed as a test case ahead of national polls next year, with the main opposition party boycotting the ballot citing violence and intimidation.
The posts, for the chair of villages and streets, are critical for organising public meetings and mobilising grass-root support campaigning. In the economic capital Dar es Salaam, many poll centres were closed because the CCM candidate stood unoppThree out of Tanzania’s 26 mainland regions — Katavi, Ruvuma and Tanga — will not hold polls at all due to the opposition boycott.Rights groups say the intimidation of political opponents has escalated sharply under Magufuli, a strongman elected in 2015 whose administration has wielded wide-ranging laws to silence government critics.
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