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The Raila Doctrine is a phrase which has been used to describe how Raila Odinga has been reacting to his losses in Elections in Kenya . The phrase was coined in a legal argument by Senior Counsel Ahmednasir Abdullahi representing the IEBC, during the Kenya Presidential Election Petition that was heard by the Supreme Court of Kenya in March 2013. The doctrine simply states:〔Nullifying poll results could spark a crisis, electoral body boss warns Standard Media acc date 2 May 2013 ()〕 ''...a presidential election can never be declared to have been free and/or fair unless Raila Odinga wins the election.'' ==Background== Raila Odinga who also happens to be the immediate former Kenyan Prime Minister, has contested three times for presidency of Kenya and has lost in all the occasions. In 1997 Raila Odinga garnered 667,886〔Kenyan general election, 1997〕 representing approximately 10.80% of the total votes cast in an election that was won by Daniel arap Moi who was vying as the incumbent. In the 2002 Kenyan general election, Raila Odinga dropped his presidential ambition in favor of Mwai Kibaki after his now famous proclamation Kibaki Tosha. After the election victory, Raila was to fall out with Mwai Kibaki after acrimoniously accusing Mwai Kibaki of failing to honor a pre-election MOU that they had allegedly signed.〔Mwai Kibaki#2005: Constitutional Referendum.2C the NARC fallout and Government of National Unity〕 In 2007, Raila Odinga was poised to be the Kenya's fourth president after riding a "''popularity wave''". However, matters took a different turn when in the final minutes of tallying, votes started streaming in showing that Mwai Kibaki was actually winning the election. Before the ECK made a formal declaration, Mwai Mibaki proclaimed himself to be the winner. This triggered wisespread violence throughout Kenya and over 1200 people were killed. Raila Odinga called for peace, having accepted what is now referred to as "the half loaf of bread offer" from Kibaki, to be appointed the Prime Minister of Kenya. In 2008, Raila Odinga was instrumental to in bringing the Kriegler Commission to investigate the post election violence. Following the Kriegler Report the ECK was disbanded and sweeping changes were implemented which included the Constitution of Kenya and the IEBC In the 2013 General Elections, the IEBC declared that Raila Odinga had lost to Uhuru Kenyatta. Raila Odinga refused to accept defeat. In a press conference shortly after the results were announced noted that the election had been marred by massive failures by the BVR kits, EVID (electronic voter identification or "Pollbooks"), RTS (results transmission system or "tallying system") and the RPS (results presentation or "transmissions system"). He claimed that the manual tallying was suspect leaving him no choice but to The Kenya Presidential Election Petition 2013 contest the result in Kenya's highest court, The Supreme Court. Mindful of bringing the challenge, Raila Odinga and his lawyers George Oraro, Mutula Kilonzo, and James Orengo, secretly instructed Raj Pal Senna, a Management Consultant from Barcelona to carry out a forensic investigation of the technology used in the Kenyan General Election 2013, during which the IEBC made claims on TV and media that there were "technological challenges", that "servers overloaded" and that "database crashed". Raj Pal Senna included in this work a forensic examination of the evidence of IEBC and Uhuru Kenyatta in relation to the technology deployed during the Kenyan Presidential Elections. Raila Odinga and his lawyers then took appropriate legal steps to verify the findings of Raj Pal Senna by consulting authorities in the USA and the UK. The findings of the Raj Pal Senna were then documented in his witness statement for Raila Odinga, and became to be known as "Witness Statement RO6" The Supreme Court subsequently dismissed The Kenya Presidential Election Petition 2013 on 30 March 2013, and Chief Justice Willy Mutunga directed a criminal investigation of the IEBC. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Raila Doctrine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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