Editing History of Kenya (section)

====2002 elections====
[[File:Mwai Kibaki & wife at White House, October 2003.jpg|thumb|right|[[Mwai Kibaki]] and (the late) Mrs. [[Lucy Kibaki]] with US President [[George W. Bush]] and Mrs. [[Laura Bush]] at the [[White House]] during a state visit in 2003.]]
Constitutionally barred from running in the December 2002 presidential elections, Moi unsuccessfully promoted [[Uhuru Kenyatta]], the son of Kenya's first President, as his successor. A rainbow coalition of opposition parties routed the ruling KANU party, and its leader, Moi's former vice-president [[Mwai Kibaki]], was elected president by a large majority.

On 27 December 2002, by 62% the voters overwhelmingly elected members of the National Rainbow Coalition (NaRC) to parliament and NaRC candidate Mwai Kibaki (b. 1931) to the presidency. Voters rejected the Kenya African National Union's (KANU) presidential candidate, Uhuru Kenyatta, the handpicked candidate of outgoing president Moi. International and local observers reported the 2002 elections to be generally more fair and less violent than those of both 1992 and 1997. His strong showing allowed Kibaki to choose a cabinet, to seek international support and to balance power within the NaRC.