Adolf Kaure
Matheus David
Several political parties in the country have questioned the government’s silent on the 2025 Tanzania National Elections which culminated in Samia Suluhu Hassan declared as the winner.
Hassan, representing the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi, was declared the winner and sworn into her second term as president on 3 November 2025, claiming 98% of the votes after an election which was marred by alleged human rights violations. The election took place on 29 October 2025.
Swanu president, Evilastus Kaaronda has questioned the Namibian government’s stance on the recent elections in Tanzania.
“The Namibian government cannot be the first to keep quite in this face of all these human rights violations. It doesn’t matter how many people were beaten or died. One person is one person too many and we don’t have to have such incidents in any elections.”
The Swanu leader said his party’s has every right to demand a stern response from the government and not one that seems to be condoning the alleged human rights violation.On behalf of the Body of Christ Party (BCP), the party’s president Festus Thomas stated that there was unfairness in the Tanzanian election, as it contradicted democratic norms, and that people were not adequately protected during the election.
“As Africans, we observe stuffing ballots, internet outages, abduction of political opponents and political motivations undermining the integrity of voters,” he said. He further said Tanzania’s president, Hassan, is an enemy of both Tanzanian and democratic norms.
The BCP president said the election was marred by an unconducive environment, by passing the African Union principles, normative frameworks, and other international obligations and standards of democratic elections.
“This event sparked days of violent protests, with protesters occupying the streets of major cities to voice their disapproval of Hassan’s primary opponents’ exclusion from the race and what they claimed was widespread repression”, Thomas said.
In the same vein, he said the voting day descended into chaos despite the heavy presence of security forces.
He added that while many Africans viewed the Tanzanian elections as a disgraceful sham, some African leaders chose to treat them as legitimate and even joined in celebrations instead of condemning the violence and loss of innocent lives.
“The Body of Christ denounces these acts and calls on the African Union and the international community to take immediate action,” Thomas stated.
Samia Suluhu Hassan became the sixth president of Tanzania on 19 March 2021.