Raila Odinga submits case to supreme court in move that could heighten the country’s political dispute
. Odinga, 77, has disputed the outcome of elections three times before – twice in court.
The supreme court has ordered a rerun of presidential elections once before, in 2017, because of “widespread discrepancies’’ by the electoral commission, after the sitting president was declared winner in a flawed race. Confidence in the electoral body grew in this month’s elections after it made voter forms publicly available, opening them up to independent tallies by the media and the general population.
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