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THE ELECTIONS ARE AROUND THE CORNER

Kombaini ya vyama saba vya upinzani Mjini Iringa vikifanya kampeni za uchaguzi kwa pamoja kama mbinu moja wapo ya kulitwa Jimbo la Iringa mjini, kama inavyoonekana gari kuwa na bendera ya vya mbalimabli kutundikwa ikielekea kwenye kampeni. TANZANIA is going to general elections on October 31, 2010 and Elections are a process. It is important to bear in mind that what takes place on the polling day is a conclusion of struggles, campaigns and debates that have been going for quite some time. Like a ‘Judgment Day’, the polling day is about decisions that have been long in the making. Even judging an election whether is free and fair or not, is not the matter of what happens on voting day, but what has been happening all along. Obstacles to free and fair democratic elections Among the most common obstacles are abject poverty, inequality, ignorance, electoral corruption, unethical polities, total despair, extremism, lack of courage, apathy, imposed political culture, discriminati...