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Viewing cable 09DARESSALAAM31, BY-ELECTION DEEPENS OPPOSITION RIFT

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
09DARESSALAAM31 2009-01-20 13:44 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Dar Es Salaam
VZCZCXRO0691
RR RUEHBZ RUEHDU RUEHJO RUEHMR RUEHRN
DE RUEHDR #0031/01 0201344
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 201344Z JAN 09
FM AMEMBASSY DAR ES SALAAM
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 8182
INFO RUCNSAD/SOUTHERN AF DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY COLLECTIVE
RUEHNR/AMEMBASSY NAIROBI 1106
RUEHKM/AMEMBASSY KAMPALA 3280
RUEHLGB/AMEMBASSY KIGALI 1208
RUEHJB/AMEMBASSY BUJUMBURA 2764
RUEHDS/USMISSION USAU ADDIS ABABA
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 DAR ES SALAAM 000031 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
AF/E FOR JLIDDLE, INR/RAA FOR FEHRENREICH 
 
E.O. 12958:  N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PREL KDEM TZ
SUBJECT: BY-ELECTION DEEPENS OPPOSITION RIFT 
 
REF: 2008 Dar es Salaam 722 
 
1. (U) SUMMARY. An upcoming parliamentary by-election in 
southwestern Mbeya Rural district has exposed a sharpening rivalry 
between Tanzania's two main opposition parties, CUF and CHADEMA. 
Although ruling CCM is expected to retain the seat by a large 
margin, the opposition's inability to agree on a single candidate 
has further strengthened CCM's position.  The Embassy will 
participate in an observer mission to the election. END SUMMARY. 
 
BACKGROUND 
---------- 
 
2. (U) The January 26 by-election in Mbeya Rural follows the 
November death of MP Richard Nyaulawa, who had occupied the seat 
since 2005.  Because of Tanzanian electoral laws, this by-election 
is likely to be the last on mainland Tanzania before the 2010 
general elections. 
 
3. (U) Mbeya Rural, like most of southern Tanzania, has long been a 
stronghold of the ruling CCM party, which has governed Tanzania 
since independence.  CCM politicians have held the seat since 1995, 
when multiparty elections began.  In 2005, Richard Nyaulawa won 
nearly 80 percent of the vote, very close to the level of national 
support for President Kikwete.  The district economy is 
predominantly agricultural, including production of some export 
crops such as tea and coffee, and per capita GDP is modestly above 
the national average (2006 figures). 
 
CANDIDATES 
---------- 
 
4. (U) CCM's dominance in the district suggests that the real 
contest likely occurred in the nominating process.  Reverend Luckson 
Mwanjale, a Lutheran minister, beat out a field including a retired 
senior military officer.  Mwanjale, who placed second to Nyaulawa 
for the 2005 nomination, is a well-known local figure in both 
politics and religion.  The Mbeya region is known for its (mainly 
Christian) religiosity. 
 
5. (U) The candidate for the Civic United Front (CUF), Daudi Mponzi, 
is himself mainly associated with CCM.  Mponzi, a retired 
telecommunications engineer, left CCM after losing earlier efforts 
to gain the nomination for the parliamentary candidacy.  Mponzi has 
campaigned on a theme of CCM incompetence and neglect of the 
district. 
 
6. (U) There is also a third candidate, Subi Mwakapiki, from the 
small Sauti ya Umma (Voice of the People) party.  Sauti ya Umma's 
entry into the race apparently stems from a belief that Mponzi as a 
former CCM member does not represent a real opposition candidate. 
(Note: In 2005, Mponzi sought the Sauti ya Umma nomination after 
losing out within CCM, but was rebuffed.) 
 
OPPOSITION INFIGHTING 
--------------------- 
 
7. (U) Two other parties, CHADEMA (Party of Democracy and 
Development) and the Democratic Party (DP), also put forth 
candidates.  However, the CCM and CUF candidates successfully sought 
their disqualification on obscure technical grounds (the CHADEMA and 
DP candidates had sworn to their candidacy documents before a lawyer 
rather than a judge, as electoral law requires).  The National 
Electoral Commission upheld the local ruling, leaving CHADEMA and DP 
no recourse prior to the by-election. 
 
8. (SBU) Senior CUF official Ismail Jussa told Poloff that CUF had 
written to the other parties in advance of the by-election seeking a 
united front behind CUF's candidate.  CUF argued that its 
second-place finish in the district in 2005 (albeit with under ten 
percent of the vote) justified CUF to take the opposition lead. 
CHADEMA, fresh from its victory in the Tarime by-election (reftel), 
and convinced of its momentum, declined to yield the field.  After 
the disqualification of its candidate, partly at CUF instigation, 
CHADEMA has explicitly declined to support CUF's candidate.  This 
stance further reduces the chances of Mponzi, although he picked up 
the support of other smaller opposition parties, including 
NCCR-Mageuzi and the Tanzanian Labor Party, whose priority is to 
increase any opposition representation in Parliament. 
 
9. (U) The election campaign itself has been calm.  Apart from the 
opposition wrangling, the media has found little to report.  In 
contrast to Tarime, neither CCM nor CUF has devoted serious 
resources to the contest.  We will participate in an observer 
 
DAR ES SAL 00000031  002 OF 002 
 
 
mission, mostly with European delegations, to evaluate the 
atmosphere and the organization of the election. 
 
COMMENT 
------- 
 
10. (SBU) The opposition disputes in Mbeya bode poorly for efforts 
to reduce CCM's overwhelming parliamentary majority in the 2010 
elections.  In 2005, more than twenty CCM candidates won with 
plurality and might have been defeated by a united opposition.  Part 
of the dispute stems from CUF's identification as a Zanzibar-based 
party and CHADEMA's efforts to establish itself as the primary 
mainland opposition.  In 2005, CUF won the most opposition votes 
both nationally and on the mainland, but did not win any mainland 
seats, while CHADEMA won five.  The future of opposition cooperation 
will also be affected by pending amendments to the Political Parties 
Act, slated to be considered by Parliament at its next session.  An 
important open question is whether parties will be permitted to 
merge without disbanding (and thereby losing any parliamentary 
seats). 
 
GREEN