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Political parties

Kenya

United Democratic Alliance

Populism / enterprise conservatism

UDA

Kenya’s governing party, which won in 2022 on a "hustler nation" platform contrasting small traders and informal workers with established political families.

Founded
2020
Positions as of
2022 election manifesto
Last verified
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What does it believe?

  • Wealth and inequality

    Campaigns on bottom-up economics: credit and market access for small traders and smallholders rather than large infrastructure.

  • Environment and growth

    Committed to a fifteen billion tree programme and to fully renewable electricity generation.

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Where it sits on each dimension

Wealth and inequality

55

Evidence: Documented

The state in the economy

55

Evidence: Documented

Personal liberty

40

Evidence: Documented

Tradition and change

26

Evidence: Documented

Nation and the world

70

Evidence: Documented

Religion and the state

76

Evidence: Well documented

Power and its limits

48

Evidence: Documented

Environment and growth

55

Evidence: Documented

Sources

Sources are prioritised in this order: official manifestos, official party documents, parliamentary records, academic research, then high-quality reporting.

  • The Plan: Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda · United Democratic Alliance · 2022
  • UDA Party Constitution · United Democratic Alliance