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Parliamentary Broadcasting Unit (PBU) is a Kenyan terrestrial television network that was created in 2009 by the Parliament of Kenya with the assistance of the USAID with an aim to open up the democratic space. [3] The PBU network televises live proceedings of both houses of parliament.
The constitution re-established the Senate, previously disbanded in 1966. The new body was to have 47 elected members (one for each county ) and 20 nominated members (16 women appointed on the basis of elected seat distribution, two representing youth and two representing people with disabilities).
This came to be known as the little general election, in which the KPU received a majority of the vote, but KANU won more than 60% of the seats. Later in the year the Senate was abolished, as it was merged with the House of Representatives to form the National Assembly. The KPU was subsequently banned in 1969 and Kenya became a one-party state.
The Parliament of Kenya is the bicameral legislature of Kenya. [1] It is based at Parliament Buildings in Nairobi and consists of two houses. The upper house is the Senate , and the lower house is the National Assembly .
The Senate of the Republic of Kenya is one of the two Houses of the Parliament of Kenya, along with the National Assembly. The Senate was first established as part of Kenya's 1963 Constitution . After being abolished in 1966, the Senate was re-established by Article 93 of the new 2010 Constitution to represent counties ' interests as well as ...
The 2013 general election will be the first where there would be election of County governors and their deputies for the 47 newly created counties. A total of 237 candidates ran for office. Each county was divided into wards in order to elect County Assembly representatives, with 9,885 candidates running.
In contrast, the Senate is made up of 47 Senators representing each of the 47 counties, 16 women nominated by political parties according to the parties' proportions in the Senate, one man and woman to represent the youth, one man and women to represent persons with disabilities, and the Speaker, who is also an ex-officio member like the ...
The president is elected for a five-year term by the people. As of the 2013 March general election, the Constitution of Kenya has two requirements for any candidate to be declared winner: to win at least 25% of the vote in a majority of Kenya's forty-seven counties [3] to garner 50% + 1 vote of the total valid votes.