Educated in the United States, the son of a CCM power broker, he recently quit his job as a speechwriter for Tanzania's president, Jakaya Kikwete, to run in Bumbuli.
But instead of strengthening the union, the process may be tearing it apart.A draft based on public consultations was rewritten by a constitutional assembly dominated by members of the ruling Party of the Revolution (CCM).
The Civic United Front is backed by quite a few Muslims on the coast and in the autonomous island of Zanzibar.But they are too weak to topple the all-powerful CCM.
CCM will stay alive with over €2 billion in assets and a 25% stake in the banking business.Mergers among the cajas may be good news for the banks: history shows merged banks lose market share in the short term.
On CCW, the U.S. delegation will continue close consultations with the UK on the CCM-excluded weapons issue.
-- Urge GIRoA to take full advantage of the flexibility afforded by Article 21 of the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) that allows for continued "military cooperation and operations" between a signatory and a non-signatory.
BACKGROUND 5. (C) Despite assurances to the contrary from President Karzai and Foreign Minister Spanta to Ambassador Wood in February 2008 (ref B), the GIRoA joined 93 other states in signing the CCM, December 3-4, 2008 in Oslo, Norway.
Caja Castilla La Mancha (CCM), a tiny caja the Bank of Spain took management control of last March, is a case in point.
He showed his steel by ousting a long-serving CCM parliamentarian.
Skirmishes in Zanzibar since the mainland voted in December have been limited, so far, and CCM has made extravagant promises about better schools and health care for the islanders, to try to keep them quiet for another five years.Mr Kikwete says he is proud to represent a "beautiful, peaceful and united nation".
A self-styled "fourth phase" for CCM is hardly cause for celebration, but it does offer some hope of eventually expanding Tanzania's economy in ways that still preserve the country's peaceable nature.
