Most Kenyans Want Minimum Reforms Before Elections

According to an online poll carried out on the popular Nation media group site, Almost 60 per cent of Kenyans want minimum reforms before the elections rather than a full review of the constitution. It is clear that most Kenyans do not believe that a full review is possible before 2007.

This is hardly surprising. Most voters are itching to teach the current politicians a lesson at the ballot box and are anxious to get there. Full reforms to many seem to be a time-wasting tactic on the side of the government.

The call for minimum reforms was launched by non other than Agwambo himself. You have to give it him, the guy knows his sums. Narc Kenya seem to have done their careful arithmetic to get Kibaki a second term in exactly the same way that Moi did it in two multi-party elections (by getting a slim lead and over 25% of the vote in five provinces. In fact Kibaki has the huge advantage of being assured of a large chunk of the Kikuyu vote (or so his handlers think).

This is the main issue in the clamor for minimum reforms by the opposition who now want the constitution to be changed so that a President must be elected by over 51% of the votes cast, meaning that we would almost certainly have a run off in 2007, if this is passed.