The most important news is that voting operations throughout Kenya took place in a peaceful manner and with a patience index that we Italians, for example, would not be able to. Suffice it to think that in many polling stations it was voted until 2am, for problems of various nature.
And there is no point to point your finger on the proverbial African slowness, on the pole pole earth that we so much like when we adopt the philosophy of enjoying the time that goes hand in hand closer to those of our soul.
Political news is that outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta after the two-thirds section of the entire Kenya section is ahead with a margin of 11% over the challenger Raila Odinga. Overnight, the situation could change, but analysts looking at the trend and comparing it with the previous election, estimate Kenyatta's victory at the worst of the hypothesis, with a possible final score of 52 to 48.
You have to be cautious with exit polls, as the recent American experience remembers, only this morning around the 6 o'clock we will have a final idea.
Meanwhile, the coast is marked by the net dominance of the opposition, represented at Kilifi by the outgoing Governor Amason Kingi, who from the first scrutiny is around 70%.
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