Orange Democratic Movement

The Orange Democratic Movement (abbreviation ODM , German  Orange Democratic Movement ) is a party founded in 2006 in Kenya . It emerged from the opposition to the Kenyan constitutional referendum in 2005 .

ODM emerged from the cooperation of the Liberal Democratic Party of Kenya with KANU against the draft constitution of the government of President Mwai Kibaki , which was rejected in the referendum of 2005. KANU left the ODM before the 2007 election, but a number of younger KANU politicians, especially from the Kalenjin ethnicity in the Rift Valley , stayed in the ODM.

In the 2007 election, it was the strongest party in the Kenyan parliament with around 45 percent of the vote and 99 members of parliament . According to the official election result, your presidential candidate Raila Odinga was narrowly beaten by incumbent President Mwai Kibaki . However, the ODM denies the validity of the vote count and the legitimacy of Kibaki's swearing-in for his new term, which led to the riots in Kenya in 2007/2008 .

A spin-off from the ODM is the almost eponymous ODM-Kenya , which entered the 2007 elections as a party with little success and has a regional power base in Kambaland .