'Join a Party or I Cannot Elect You': The Independent Candidate Question in Tanzania

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dc.contributor.authorMakulilo, Alexander B.
dc.date.accessioned2016-05-09T20:09:15Z
dc.date.available2016-05-09T20:09:15Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractIndependent candidates are not allowed in Tanzania. This restriction has raised debate which dominates multipartism and its efficacy in the country. Since the inception of multipartism in 1992, there have been three major cases on independent candidates. In the first two cases, the High Court ruled in favour of independent candidate. However, in the third case, the Court of Appeal, while subscribing to the need of independent candidates, it nullified the previous judgments by the High Court on the ground that the court had no jurisdiction in declaring a constitutional provision to be unconstitutional; and that the independent candidate issue being political and not legal should be resolved by the parliament. I argue that the Court of Appeal failed to exercise its mandate in administering justice. I further argue that such failure is attributed to the fear by the justices from the ruling party and its government.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMakulilo, A.B., 2011. 'Join a Party or I Cannot Elect You': The Independent Candidate Question in Tanzania. CEU Political Science Journal, 6(1), pp.111-137.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/1919
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectIndependent candidateen_US
dc.subjectTanzaniaen_US
dc.subjectMtikilaen_US
dc.subjectDemocracyen_US
dc.subjectCourten_US
dc.title'Join a Party or I Cannot Elect You': The Independent Candidate Question in Tanzaniaen_US
dc.typeJournal Article, Peer Revieweden_US
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