Tanzanians head to the polls on Wednesday in an election widely expected to deliver another term for President Samia Suluhu Hassan, after authorities disqualified candidates from the country ’s two main opposition parties.

In addition to the presidential election , voters will choose members of the country’s 400-seat parliament and a president and lawmakers in the semi-autonomous Zanzibar archipelago.

The presidential vote will be held without the leading opposition party, CHADEMA, whose leader Tundu Lissu is on trial for treason, charges he denies. The electoral commission disqualified CHADEMA in April after it refused to sign an electoral code of conduct.

The commission also disqualified Luhaga Mpina, the candidate for the second largest opposition party, ACT-Wazalendo, after an o

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