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[QUOTE="Munyaradzi Mafaro, post: 66924, member: 636"]
Senator Samson Cherargei has congratulated Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan on her re-election and called on her to form a broad-based government to foster national unity. In a post on X, the Nandi Senator urged her to begin talks on a more inclusive administration and to initiate the process of drafting a new constitution that reflects the people’s will.

Cherargei noted that Suluhu ran virtually unopposed after key opposition candidates were excluded from the race. The Independent National Electoral Commission announced that she won about 31.9 million votes, or 97.66 percent of the ballots cast, with voter turnout at nearly 87 percent among the 37.6 million registered voters. Her Chama Cha Mapinduzi party also captured all but two of the 272 parliamentary seats.

His comments followed reports of protests in Dar es Salaam, Arusha, and Mwanza, where demonstrators, mostly young people, decried the barring of opposition figures and alleged electoral irregularities. Authorities imposed a curfew as unrest continued. Rights groups cited unverified claims of casualties, while international observers reported restricted access, censorship, and intimidation before the vote. In Zanzibar, CCM’s Hussein Mwinyi was declared the winner with nearly 80 percent of the vote.
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