Tanzania is emerging out of a chaotic and highly controlled and uncompetitive election.
Structural constraints on opposition candidates and aspirants by the State have rendered the entire exercise to be no more than electoral fiction.
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            var days = Math.floor(totalSeconds / (24 * 3600));
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            var seconds = totalSeconds % 60;
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Offer ends in…
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                  ${String(hours).padStart(2,’0′)}Hours
                  ${String(minutes).padStart(2,’0′)}Minutes
                  ${String(seconds).padStart(2,’0′)}Seconds
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    function formatTime(ms) {
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        totalSeconds %= 3600 * 24;
        const hours = Math.floor(totalSeconds / 3600);
        totalSeconds %= 3600;
        const minutes = Math.floor(totalSeconds / 60);
        const seconds = totalSeconds % 60;
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