On Monday, Aug. 15, William Ruto was announced as the president-elect of Kenya following a hotly contested election.
His presidency is still not assured: Four of the seven electoral commissioners rejected the outcome of the election, describing the tallying process as “opaque.” Ruto’s main challenger, Raila Odinga, has filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking to overturn it, with the court set to rule imminently.
Even as the petition is underway, the president-elect has been busy consolidating his supremacy in parliament and the senate with post-election coalitions that would grant him a majority in both houses. If the Supreme Court does not nullify his win, Ruto will be sworn in as the fifth president of Kenya.