Poll indicates Kenya presidential race tightening
A new poll indicates that the Kenyan presidential race is on a statistical tie.
Raila Odinga, the opposition leader who is running for a fifth time, leads with 46.7%, his challenger William Ruto, the current deputy president, is on 44.4%.
Support for the other two presidential candidates has dropped, they are both polling at below 2%.
As it stands, the two candidates will go into a rerun 30 days after the 9 August election.
According to Kenya’s constitution to win in the presidency in the first round, a candidate requires:
More than half of all the votes cast in the election and at least 25% of the votes cast in each of more than half of the 47 counties.
By NTV
