The mandate is indefinite and coincides with the publication by two opposition groups of a communiqué in which they reject any possibility of establishing a coalition with the government to face together the protests that have been shaking this East African country for weeks.
The opposition stance follows meetings between the coalitions OKA, President Ruto, and Azimio La Umoja, of his fierce rival Raila Odinga, who assures that the elections in which the president was elected were fraudulent, an allegation rejected by the Constitutional Court.
The police warning was issued a few hours before the beginning of the marches called for today, which should end at the Presidential Palace to demand the resignation of President William Ruto due to his poor governance, according to the summons circulated on social networks.
Thus, it is obvious that President Ruto gave up the appeasement policy followed weeks ago in order to calm down the tempers and tacitly satisfy some of the demands of the protesters, led by Generation Z, an entity with no visible face or known ideological inclination.
The head of state eliminated two of the most controversial taxes in his proposed economic reform law, refused to sign the law after its approval in the Legislature, suspended the salary increase for high officials and dismissed most of the government ministers, but did not achieve the desired effects.
President Ruto, besides praising the organizers of the marches ‘for their patriotism’, called them in for talks, but the eventual talks never took place.
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