Ukawa: Twaweza poll results not credible

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Ukawa leaders want release of poll results suspended
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Leaders of the opposition coalition known as Ukawa have called for the immediate suspension in announcing the Union Presidential results. This is only hours after news broke out early yesterday that the Zanzibar Electoral Commission had cancelled the ...
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Human Rights Commission caution opportune: Credible poll is everything
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The Commission for Human Rights and Good Governance yesterday came out strongly to remind leaders of political parties, contestants and their followers against the use of hate speech and abusive language during this election campaign period.

The ACT Wazalendo have announced yesterday that they are content with Twaweza statistics released earlier this week as they reflect the major hurdles citizens face.

An opinion poll showing CCM candidate John Magufuli leading his Chadema rival Edward Lowassa by 40 per cent has drawn strong reaction from politicians and academicians.

On Wednesday last week Twaweza released a survey on citizens’ preferences and views on political leadership that showed that about half of the respondents support CCM.

Much of the discussion in traditional media, on social media and elsewhere regarding our recently published opinion poll findings on Tanzanian politics has focussed on perceived errors in the brief. We want to correct three of the most common misunderstandings.
1. “Totals do not add up to 100%.”
It has been pointed out that several charts and tables in the brief include data that does not seem to add up to 100%. In some cases, the figures add up to 99%, 101% or 102%.

This is purely as a result...

>The last one month has seen a number of turns and twists within the country’s main opposition party Chadema.

The leadership of the opposition party Alliance for Change and Transparency (ACT-Wazalendo) has expressed satisfaction with the results it registered in the October General Election, saying plans were already in place for a sound victory in 2020.

Madagascar’s Special Electoral Court (CES) has published the official results of last December’s legislative polls.