Kenya's Democracy has been a multi-party system before June 1982 and since 1992 after the repealing of Section 2A of the Independence Constitution of Kenya by President Moi that marked the end of one party-system.
Despite Kenya being a multi-party system, in reality, Kenya is a two-party system as it has always been dominated by two Political Parties only or two coalitions since independence where all other hundreds of Political parties play a role of spectators in Kenya's Politics.
Since 1992 to 2007, the political parties in Kenya rose from one party to over 160 Political parties. But, with establishment and implementation of Political Parties Act 2008 and 2012, the numbers of political parties were reduced from over 160 Political Parties to 24 Political Parties which gained registration certificates.
Since 2013 upto now, the political parties has rose tremendously up to over 100 Political Parties majority of which are dormant and don't even have any single elected leader whether in County Assembly or Parliament. Even as we head to 2022 General Elections, majority of these Political Parties will not get any elected seat with their presidential candidates garnering lesser votes than some MCAs and MPs Candidates.
In Kenya, Office of Registra of Political Parties is mandated to register, regulate, monitor, investigate and supervise political parties to ensure compliance with Political Parties Act as well as administering the Political Parties Fund and maintaining a register of all political parties, their symbols and members list.
The ORPP need to regulate Political Parties in Kenya so that dormant parties or parties that fail to garner enough votes to win any seat in General Elections can be dissolved as well as Parties which their presidential candidates fails to garner certain percentage of total votes cast in a presidential contest.
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