At mid-morning this Sunday, police officers were still visible in the building, where agents of both rivals remain despite the fact that the president of the electoral commission asked them to leave to speed up the process of counting the ballots.

The incident broke out when one of the delegates of the leader of the opposition National Super Alliance and presidential candidate, Raila Odinga, characterized the commission as “the scene of a crime”, a biased allusion to a fraud in the counting of votes, but without contributing evidence.

The Kenyan elections last Tuesday opposed Odinga and the still Vice President William Ruto, in the unusual circumstance that the former has the explicit support of the outgoing president in detriment of the latter, his co-religionist in the Kenyan African National Union party.

According to the program, the electoral authority has until Tuesday to report the official results of the race, but the radio and written press have broadcast partial results, with the exception of television stations, which since Friday suspended their reports for reasons still unknown.

The latest unofficial reports give Ruto a narrow lead of about three percentage points, contradicting reports as of Saturday that favored Odinga by a similar margin.

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