William Ruto, the incoming president, criticized the Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition and questioned their math skills.
Ruto defeated Raila Odinga of the Azimio la Umoja coalition party to win the presidential election.
He once more commended Wafula Chebukati, chairman of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), for giving Kenya and Kenyans a cause for celebration by making the provisional and official presidential results available online.
“I congratulate the IEBC. If there’s a hero of this election, it is Wafula Chebukati. He brought us a moment of pride. Simple mathematics, no pythagoras theory,” Ruto said.
The newly elected president spent time convincing his rivals to accept the election results and deal with the fact that numbers caused them.
Ruto has instructed them to go back to the drawing board and properly perform their calculations in response to Raila Odinga’s assertions that they have numbers in parliament.
“I still see they’re trying to say they have numbers in Parliament. I don’t see how they count these numbers. Unless they use the 0.01% mathematics… Let’s deal with reality,” Ruto advised.
Ruto pledged to the people of Kenya that his government will ensure that it works with everyone despite their voting patterns. He also stated that all leaders will work towards enriching the common mwananchi.
“We will work with everyone and commit that no Kenyan, irrespective of how they voted, will be disenfranchised in any way. Kenyans shouldn’t regret how they voted; they have right to vote how they voted. The government will serve everyone. We will come together as elected leaders to serve the people of Kenya,” an optimistic Ruto said.
Majority representation in parliament
The 11th parliament in the national assembly became the lower house when the Senate was established.
It has 349 seats for 290 members elected from the constituencies, 47 women elected from the counties and 12 nominated representatives. In addition, the Speaker of the National Assembly of Kenya serves as an ex officio member.
The High Court of Kenya ordered lawmakers to introduce gender quotas, or face dissolution in the mid-2010s, following the implementation of the 2010 Constitution.
The party with a majority of leaders on the floor of the house is the one to appoint a majority leader, while the party with the second highest number of representatives appoints a minority leader.
Depending on the freedom and the ability of parliament to do their mandate, the executive uses the house as a rubber stamp for bills championed by the party leader, who is usually the president.
