After independence in December 1961, Tanzania’s first President, Julius Nyerere, introduced socialist economic planning. By the late
1970s, however, this approach was clearly failing and the economy was in crisis. In 1985, Nyerere stepped down and Ali Hassan Mwinyi became President. The new government embarked upon a World Bank and IMF sponsored Economic Recovery Programme (ERP). This lasted for three years, devastated social services and infrastructure, and failed to alleviate the country’s economic problems.
The negative effects of the ERP, growing opposition to the government, and the democratising wave that swept through Africa in the early 1990s, led to demands for political liberalisation. While Tanzania had, up to this point, been a one party state, President Mwinyi finally relented and appointed the Nyalali Commission. In December 1991 it recommended the adoption of a multiparty system. However, a significant delay in legalising opposition parties allowed the CCM to mount a recruitment campaign and become financially self-sufficient. The delay also meant that opposition parties were still unable to operate. Although initially gaining support, the opposition began to suffer disunity once the government acceded to its demands for multiparty politics.
MULTI PART SYSTEM
Is the system whereby a country having more than one political parts in Tanzania multiparty system introduced in 1992 under Nyalali commission whereby the first election of multipart system conducted in 1995 or
A multi-party system is a system in which multiple political parties across the political spectrum run for national election, and all have the capacity to gain control of government offices, separately or in coalition.
THERE ARE TWO FACTORS FOR MULTIPARTISM IN TANZANIA THOSE ARE
2.EXTERNAL FACTORS
3.INTENAL FACTORS2
2.EXTERNAL FACTORS
Pressure from USA
The role played part by mass media example BBC and DW
The conditionalities exmple IMF AND WB
The collapse of USSRin1990
2 INTERNAL FACTORS
To promote free and fair election
To promote democracy in Tanzania
To challenge the government
To bring the development
To check the corruption