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Raila, Ruto parties change tack in grassroots polls

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ODM Leader Raila Odinga addressing the press after the Central Committee meeting of the ODM Party at Capitol Hill Square. [Emmanuel Wanson, Standard]

Faced with the daunting challenge of conducting elections, the country's two major political parties this week made a tactical retreat, choosing to stagger their polls.

The move, seen as a strategy to test the waters, given the polarising effect of party elections, comes in the wake of months of pushing and shoving within their ranks, which threatened their stability.

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