National Alliance Party of Kenya
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The National Alliance
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| Leader | Uhuru Kenyatta |
| Chairman | Johnson Sakaja |
| Secretary-General | Onyango Oloo |
| Deputy Chairperson | Lydia Mokaya |
| Organising Secretary | Birya Chade |
| Treasurer | Wambui Gichuru |
| Founder | Lawrence Nginyo Kariuki |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Dissolved | 2016 |
| Merger of | Jubilee Party |
| Ideology |
Kenyan nationalism Conservatism |
| Political position | Centre-right to Right-wing |
| National affiliation | Jubilee Alliance |
| Slogan | I Believe! |
| National Assembly |
89 / 349
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| Senate |
17 / 67
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| Website | |
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The National Alliance (TNA) is a political party in Kenya. It attained its current identity when it was taken over by Uhuru Kenyatta and rebranded as the vehicle for his 2012 presidential campaign.
The National Alliance was founded as the National Alliance Party of Kenya on July 3, 2000 when people from varying background decided to form an alliance of democratic forces to work for the social, economic and political unity and welfare of Kenyan communities. The leaders of the communities represented at the inaugural meeting subsequently approached Mr. Lawrence Nginyo Kariuki, a prominent businessman and renowned politician to be the founding chairman of the Alliance and Mr. Kariuki consented. The Alliance has the primary objective of bringing Kenyans together, with the recognition that being united, they stand a better chance of successfully tackling the political, social and economic challenges they face.
In preparation for the 2002 elections, the Democratic Party of Kenya (DP) together with other 13 small political parties adopted the National Alliance Party of Kenya (then NAK), then registered as a political party by a central Kenya businessman Lawrence Nginyo Kariuki. Other members of the NAK were Kijana Wamalwa of Ford-Kenya, Charity Ngilu then of Social Democratic party among others. Few weeks to the 2002 general elections NAK formed a coalition with Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to form the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) umbrella coalition party. On 27 December 2002, the legislative elections, NARC won 56.1% of the popular vote and 125 out of 212 elected seats. NAK itself took 66 of these seats. At the presidential elections of the same day, NARC supported Mwai Kibaki, who won 62.2% of the vote and was elected the third president of Kenya. Led the fourth president to office, Mr.Uhuru Kenyatta.
On September 13, 2007 NAK joined Mwai Kibaki and other political parties in the formation of the Party of National Unity (PNU). PNU fared poorly in the parliamentary elections 2007 reaching only 43 seats against nearly 99 for its main rival, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM). Together with affiliated parties, however, it could command around 78 members of parliament. On February 28, 2008 through a mediation team headed by former UN General Secretary Kofi Annan, the PNU government reached a deal with the ODM to share power. ODM is headed by Raila Odinga. The power sharing deal was the first one of its kind in Africa.
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