GEORGE GALLOWAY AMBAYE ALIONGOZA KAMPENI DHIDI YA VITA VYA GAZA ASHINDA UCHAGUZI WA MOJA KWA MOJA UINGEREZA

 

George Galloway ashinda kiti cha Rochdale kwa tofauti kubwa ya kura baada ya kampeni yake kuhusu Palestina.

Mwanasiasa nchini Uingereza ameshinda kwa kishindo katika uchaguzi wa bunge kwa ahadi ya kusimama upande wa Gaza.

George Galloway ameshinda katika mji wa kaskazini mwa England wa Rochdale baada ya kampeni yenye mivutano, ambayo iliona Chama cha Labour kujiondoa kumuunga mkono mgombea wake kutokana na matamshi yake dhidi ya Israel.

Galloway alipata kura 12,335 ikilinganishwa na 6,638 za mgombea wa pili David Tully, ambaye ni mgombea huru. Mgombea wa zamani wa Labour, Azhar Ali, alishika nafasi ya nne baada ya chama cha upinzani kuondoa uungaji mkono wake baada ya kurekodiwa akiongelea nadharia za njama kuhusu Israel. Asilimia ya watu waliopiga kura ilikuwa chini sana, ikiwa ni asilimia 39.7.

"Keir Starmer, hii ni kwa Gaza," Galloway alisema Ijumaa, akirejelea kiongozi wa Labour ambaye mwanzoni alikataa kuitisha kusitishwa kwa mapigano huko Gaza ambapo zaidi ya watu 30,000 wameuawa katika miezi mitano iliyopita ya mashambulizi ya Israel.

"Umelipa na utalipa gharama kubwa kwa jukumu ulilolichukua la kuruhusu, kuhamasisha na kufunika janga linaloendelea ... katika Ukanda wa Gaza," alisema.

Galloway, ambaye anawakilisha Chama cha Wafanyakazi wa Uingereza, aliishutumu Labour na Conservatives kwa kumuunga mkono Israel huku akifanya kampeni ya kumuunga mkono Wapalestina katika eneo lenye idadi kubwa ya Waislamu.

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George Galloway who campaigned against Gaza war wins UK by-election

George Galloway wins Rochdale seat by 12,335 votes after running on pro-Palestine campaign.

United Kingdom politician has registered a landslide win in a parliamentary by-election on a platform promising to advocate for Gaza.

George Galloway won the seat in the northern English town of Rochdale after a fractious campaign, which saw the Labour Party withdraw support from its candidate over his anti-Israel comments.

Galloway won 12,335 votes compared with 6,638 for second-placed David Tully, an independent candidate. The former Labour candidate, Azhar Ali, came fourth after the opposition party pulled its support after he was recorded espousing conspiracy theories about Israel. Turnout was low at 39.7 percent.

“Keir Starmer, this is for Gaza,” Galloway said on Friday, referring to the Labour leader who initially refused to call for a ceasefire in Gaza where more than 30,000 people have been killed in the past five months of Israeli bombardment.

“You have paid and you will pay a high price for the role you have played in enabling, encouraging and covering for the catastrophe presently going on in … in the Gaza Strip,” he said.

Galloway, who represents the Workers Party of Britain, accused both Labour and the Conservatives of backing Israel as he ran a pro-Palestinian campaign in the constituency with a substantial Muslim population.

‘State of panic’

“I believe I am speaking for millions of people in Britain whose hearts are broken, whose guts are wrenched by the slaughter in Gaza. And they are under-represented to the point almost of invisibility in the British media,” Galloway told Al Jazeera after his win on Friday.

“Even this evening, the political class in Britain are in a state of panic about [my win], both the Conservatives and Labour, because they know they have been rumbled,” he said.

Late on Friday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who supports Israel’s war, said the election of Galloway to a parliamentary seat was “beyond alarming” and accused him of dismissing Hamas’s October 7 attack.

“[People] inside the toxic bubble of the political and media class … support the genocide against the people of Gaza,” Galloway told Al Jazeera.