A transient democracy: My reflections of 30 years of multi-party politics in Tanzania

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I made an argument to the effect that Tanzanian democracy was rather granted by the State and not a result of a serious pressure from concerned citizens through a protracted struggle. It is upon this premise I intend to build my case

The government further weakened the opposition through a series of legal and electoral interventions. CCM encouraged a wave of defections by elected councilors and MPs from the opposition to CCM, defections that then triggered by-elections in which CCM selected the former opposition politicians who invariably won their by-elections amidst widespread irregularities. “In another authoritarian legal maneuver, the CCM majority in Parliament voted to amend the Political Parties Act in January 2020, granting the Registrar of Political Parties sweeping new powers, which opposition politicians warned would entrench “one-party” rule. Among other things, the new amendments make it easier to d-register parties and give the Registrar the authority to revoke individuals’ party membership and thereby remove them from party leadership. Finally, in a development that directly prefigured the 2020 elections, CCM won 99 percent of the 12,000 village chairmanships and 4,000 street-level leadership positions contested in the November 2019 “street” elections. Tanzania of November 2020 was similar to Tanzania of April 1992 when parliament met to discuss the introduction of multiparty system.

A transient democracy: My reflections of 30 years of multi-party politics in Tanzania

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