A Compulsory Research Report Submitted to Mzumbe University – Mbeya Campus College in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for an Award of The Bachelor Degree of Laws (LL.B) of The Mzumbe University
This research study examines the Citizenship requirement for the presidency in Tanzania. The law which govern the citizenship matters in Tanzania is the Citizenship Act which recognize three types of Citizenship which is Citizenship by birth, by descent and by naturalization. The Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania of 1977 provides for the mandatory requirement for a person who want to hold the presidential post to be the citizen of the United Republic by birth. The aim of this research was to examine the possibility or impossibility of the right to the citizens of Tanzania who are citizens of the United Republic but not by birth to be eligible to hold the presidential post. This study examined the law and practice which regulate the requirement and election of president as well as the Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania of 1977 as to whether the laws provide the equal right to all citizens of the United Republic to be eligible to hold the presidential post. So, the findings of this study revealed that this right is not guaranteed to all citizens but only the citizens who are natural born and still there is no possibility of this right to be entitled equally to all citizens. This study further recommend that this right should at least be guaranteed to all citizens but subject to some conditions to the citizens who are not natural born. But also, the laws of Tanzania and the Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania of 1977 should be metalized so as to be in conformity with the international instruments which it has ratified.