In the 2007 Kenyan general election, Mwai Kibaki ran for re-election, later announcing that he wouldn't run as the candidate of a new alliance called the Party of National Unity.
On 16 September 2007, Kibaki announced that he would run as the candidate of a new alliance called the Party of National Unity, which would include a number of parties, including KANU, the Democratic Party, NARCKenya, FORD-Kenya, FordPeople and Shirikisho among others. 
