Hussein Mohamed Bashe (born 26 August 1975) is a Tanzanian CCM politician and Member of Parliament for

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Urban constituency since 2015. In January 2022, he was appointed Agriculture Minister.

Political career

Bashe has consistently been affiliated with the

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party and has made multiple attempts to run for the Nzega Urban constituency, his birthplace, across several general elections. He came third in the primary in

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. However, in the

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primary, he contested in the primaries and defeated Lucas Selelii who was trying to retain the constituency. Despite winning the party primary, Bashe was disqualified from the race by the ruling CCM's Central Committee due to allegations surrounding his citizenship status. Later on, the government confirmed Bashe's legal citizenship, however, this was not in time for the ticket. In the subsequent

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, he won the primary and Bashe triumphed with 18,774 votes, defeating his closest rival, Charles Mabula from the Chadema party, who received 9,568 votes. He successfully ran for re-election in

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, securing his seat with 84.58% of the popular vote and a total of 16,082 votes. On 22 July 2019, he got his first major cabinet position as he was appointed as deputy

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. He continued this role in

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's presidency and was promoted to the minister of agriculture in January 2022.

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