The Alliance for Change and Transparency (), sometimes known as the ACT–Wazalendo, is the third-largest political party in

Tanzania Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands and ...

. It received its permanent registration in May 2014.

Background

The party was founded in 2014. The party fielded its first presidential candidate in the 2015 general election with Anna Mghwira and won 1 seat in the national assembly. Prominent members of the party are MP

Zitto Kabwe Zitto Zuberi Ruyagwa Kabwe was born on 24 September 1976 in the village of Mwandiga, Kigoma district, Tanzania. He is popularly known as Zitto Kabwe, and is a Tanzanian politician. He was a member of the opposition party, Chadema, from 1992 until ...

Seif Sharif Hamad Seif Sharif Hamad (22 October 1943 – 17 February 2021) was a Tanzanian politician who served as the First Vice President of Zanzibar and as Party Chairman of ACT Wazalendo. He was the secretary-general of the opposition Civic United Front (CU ...

Bernard Membe Bernard Kamilius Membe (born 9 November 1953) is a Tanzanian politician. He served as a Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tanzania from 2007 to 2015.He also served as a Member of Parliament for Mtama constituency from 2000 to 2015. Early life and edu ...

Juma Duni Haji Juma Duni Haji (born 26 November 1950) is a Tanzanian politician and former civil servant. He is the Chairperson of ACT Wazalendo. He previously served as the Deputy Chairman of the Civic United Front from 2014 to 2015. He was selected as th ...

Ismail Jussa Ismail Jussa Ladhu (born 18 August 1971) is a Zanzibari ACT Wazalendo politician serving the Stonetown constituency in the Zanzibar House of Representatives. He also served as a member of the Tanzanian Parliament in 2010 after being nominated ...

Selemani Bungara Selemani Saidi Ally Bungara (born 18 November 1961) is a Tanzanian ACT Wazalendo politician and Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many ...

, Zahra Ali Hamad, Subeti Khamis Faki, Saleh Nassor Juma,

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, Nassor Mazrui,

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Masoud Salim Masoud Abdallah Salim (born 24 October 1962) is a Tanzanian ACT Wazalendo politician and Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countr ...

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, Mohamed Juma Khatib, Twahir Awesu Mohammed, Khatib Haji, Haji Kai, Othman Omar Haji, Nassor Omar, Yussuf Salimu Hussein, Abdalla Ali,

Yussuf Khamis Yussuf Khamis (born 13 August 1964) is a Tanzanian ACT Wazalendo politician and Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with ...

, Mgeni Jadi Kadika and

Abubakar Khamis Bakary Abubakar Khamis Bakary was an ACT Wazalendo politician in Tanzania. He has been a Member of Parliament in the National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislat ...

. Zitto who formally joined the party in March 2015 following his expulsion from Chadema. The party got a second boost in March 2019 when

defected from his party

Civic United Front The Civic United Front (CUF; sw, Chama Cha Wananchi, ) is a liberal party in Tanzania. Although nationally based, most of the CUF's support comes from the Zanzibar islands of Unguja and Pemba. The party is a member of Liberal International. His ...

and joined ACT due to a court ruling against control of his previous party.

Election history

Presidential elections

Bunge elections

References

External links

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ACT Constitution
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