WITH UPCOMING ELECTIONS OF 2020, TANZANIA SHOWS GOOD ENOUGH GOVERNANCE

Elections are considered a core element of democratic rule. In Tanzania since the introduction of regular elections under multiparty system in 1992 has resulted in liberal democratic reforms and the guarantee of civil and political freedoms. The European Union and the international community eagerly embrace Tanzania as a stable, peaceful, and democratic country in an otherwise turbulent region. And indeed, the country’s post-independence history has largely been free from the violent upheaval that continues to rock some of its less democratic neighbors. Its human rights–based foreign policy, compassionate treatment of refugees, and regional mediation role have earned it international praise. This peaceful stability has attracted donors, investors, and tourists alike.

For the first time since the restoration of multiparty politics in Tanzania, the 50-years hegemony maintained by the ruling party Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) has formed credible trust among citizens national wide due to it's firm fight over corruption and mismanagement of natural resources from the previous regimes. CCM, which has been able to peacefully extend its long-term rule into the democratic era, continues to enjoy significant advantages resulting from the country’s past as a single-party state. It can tap into firmly embedded party structures throughout all regions of Tanzania’s vast territory to influence voters at the grassroots level. The political party comes from a stable and substantial funding base, and holds strong control over it's institutions.

 With less than three months to go, the elections contest is heating up. Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) under it's chairman Dr. John Magufuli who has been using its political clout to influence a balanced and well mannered campaigns since his tenure in 2015 which contributed Tanzania to receive a status of middle income economy by the World Bank in July 2020. This report came shockingly behind the projection of his government plan to reach 2025 as a middle income economy, the good news from World Bank may give him focus during his presidential campaign as to earn more trust to voters and end his second term with a landslide victory of great accomplishments. 

Timely and effective preparations, as well as the National and Zanzibar Electoral Commissions that are both independent as implementing the current political parties act shall follow all recognize structural procedures which would eventually contribute to free and fair elections and safeguard all regulations to be govern the October campaign activities among political parties. 

Since independence in 1961, Tanzania has recorded a history of political and civil stability, including the first multiparty elections of 1995. The ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party has never lost a presidential elections due to it's excellency of leadership and standard implementation of their political party manifestos. Through

sequence of leaders starting with Mwalimu Julius Nyerere and Abeid Karume of Zanzibar, followed by Hon. Ally Hassan Mwinyi, Hon. Aboud Jumbe, Hon. Idris Abdu Wakil, Hon. Salmin Amour, Hon. Benjamin Mkapa and Hon. Amani Karume, Hon. Jakaya Kikwete and Hon. Mohammed Shein and currently with Dr. John Magufuli.

"Kupanga ni Kuchagua"