Alliance for Change and Transparency


Alliance for Change and Transparency is a political party in Tanzania. 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 who formally joined the party in March 2015 following his expulsion from Chadema.
The party got a second boost in March of 2019 when Seif Sharif Hamad defected from his party Civic United Front and joined ACT due to a court ruling against control of his previous party.

Election performance

Presidential elections

National Assembly elections