Tanzania's president is out here defending her massive election win after people started questioning how she pulled 97 percent of the vote. Samia Suluhu Hassan says the main opposition party, Chadema, bailed on the race because they knew they were going to lose, and that percentage only counts the actual ballots cast, not every person in the country.
She told a crowd in Dar es Salaam that opposition supporters ended up voting for her party, CCM, since their candidates weren't even on the ballot. Hassan claims nobody stopped anyone from running, and the opposition just looked at how popular CCM was during campaigns and decided to sit it out.
The president also addressed some post-election chaos, saying most of the trouble started around noon when voters had already done their thing earlier in the morning. She mentioned Tanzania will handle any election concerns internally through its established systems.
She told a crowd in Dar es Salaam that opposition supporters ended up voting for her party, CCM, since their candidates weren't even on the ballot. Hassan claims nobody stopped anyone from running, and the opposition just looked at how popular CCM was during campaigns and decided to sit it out.
The president also addressed some post-election chaos, saying most of the trouble started around noon when voters had already done their thing earlier in the morning. She mentioned Tanzania will handle any election concerns internally through its established systems.
