France, Sept. 15 -- Tanzanian opposition presidential candidate Luhaga Mpina has been banned from running in next month's election for the second time, reversing a decision made last week approving his nomination.

Tanzania's electoral commission said Monday it had disqualified Mpina, the candidate for the Alliance for change and transparency (ACT-Wazalendo), the country's second opposition party.

"The Commission has accepted the objection submitted byMr. Hamza Saidi Johari,Attorney General, against the nomination of Mr. Luhaga Joelson Mpina as a candidate for the presidency," the commission wrote Monday in a statement in which it said it had dismissed two other objections to Mpina's candidacy.

The decision comes four days after Mpina s...