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Politics makes such strange bedfellows: Will the unions last?

A political supporter dances on top of a car during the Azimio la Umoja rally at Kamukunji Grounds in Nairobi on May 15, 2022. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

The old adage that politics make strange bedfellows is in full effect in the run-up to the elections, if what we are witnessing in the political scene is anything to go by.

Leaders who have in the past decade or so been perceived as political enemies have been brought together by different circumstances.

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