[1] Hashim Spunda Rungwe, chairman of CHAUMMA since 2014,[2] was the first politician in the party's history to run for president when he stood in the 2015 Tanzanian general election.
[4] He believed that the government was responsible for ensuring the quality of infrastructure and the financial success of its citizens, and that revitalization of the cotton-growing industry would decrease poverty and unemployment rates.
[4][2] A longer-term plan is to provide free education to all Tanzanians from nursery school to university and that the country's eventual wealth in resources would make it possible.
[11][12] He promised anyone attending one of his rallies would be given a meal of chicken and rice but was quickly issued a warning from the Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau stating this would be akin to bribery.
[11][13] Rungwe also showed interest in building a canal between Dar es Salaam and Dodoma to ease goods transportation and in replacing expensive government vehicles with more cost-effective alternates.