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This Week Politics in Kenyan
The politics of Kenya take
place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic,
whereby the president is both head of state and head
of government, and of a multi-party system in accordance with a new constitution passed
in 2010.
Executive power is exercised by the executive branch of
government, headed by the President, who chairs the cabinet, which is
composed of people chosen from outside parliament. Legislative power is
vested exclusively in Parliament. The judiciary is independent
of the executive and the legislature. In Kenyan politics, the executive wields
considerable power and other institutions have limited means of checking that
power.
The Economist Intelligence Unit rated Kenya a "hybrid
regime" in 2022. The Political terror scale gave the
country a rating of 4 meaning that civil and political rights violations had
expanded to large numbers of the population. Murders, disappearances, and
torture were common parts of life.
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