{"id":10246,"date":"2018-09-26T08:25:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T08:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=10246"},"modified":"2018-09-26T12:57:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T12:57:41","slug":"agathon-rwasa-rejects-accusations-of-stealing-fnl-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/agathon-rwasa-rejects-accusations-of-stealing-fnl-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Agathon Rwasa rejects accusations of stealing FNL party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>After Rwasa has submitted the demand for agreement of his new political party to the Ministry of the Interior, Jacques Bigirimana, chairman of FNL accuses him of stealing his party. Rwasa dismisses the accusations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9447\" style=\"width: 467px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9447\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-9447\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Agathon-Rwasa-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"Agathon Rwasa: \u201cFNL Amizero y\u2019Abarundi is different from FNL party.\u201d\" width=\"457\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Agathon-Rwasa-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Agathon-Rwasa-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Agathon-Rwasa-600x345.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Agathon-Rwasa.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Agathon Rwasa: \u201cFNL Amizero y\u2019Abarundi is different from FNL party.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Agathon Rwasa, First Deputy Speaker and leader of Amizero y\u2019Abarundi opposition coalition, says the name of the party in process of being created is different from that of the existing party. \u201cFNL Amizero y\u2019Abarundi is different from FNL,\u201d he says adding that a party is more than the acronyms that make its name.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Rwasa says the colors can still be shared by different political parties but that does not mean that a given party is stolen. \u201cNobody invented colors, there are there and can be used by anyone who wants. There are examples of flags that have the same colors namely the Burundian flag and that of Algerian or France, that of The Netherlands and Russia, \u2026However, they have never fought over this,\u201d he said adding that his party\u2019s vision is different from that of the existing FNL party.<\/p>\n<p>He calls on the chairman of FNL to respect other\u2019s opinions and choice and continue with his politics if he wishes to. \u201cPolitics is not insulting others. I ask the FNL chairman to go on with his politics and stop insulting me. He should learn to respect others and their opinions,\u2019\u2019 said Rwasa.<\/p>\n<p>Rwasa wonders where Bigirimana has got all the \u201cunverified accusations\u201d as he has not yet made public the documents for the new political party. \u201cThe documents were submitted to the Ministry of the Interior. They are not yet shown to the public\u201d.<br \/>\nAt a press conference held this Monday 24, Jacques Bigirimana, FNL chairman, said that he was going to address a correspondence to the Minister of the Interior asking him not to approve the new party because Rwasa has violated rules and stolen another existing party.<br \/>\nThe existing FNL stands for National Liberation Forces while the FNL party seeking to be approved stands for National Front for Liberty-Amizero y\u2019Abarundi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Rwasa has submitted the demand for agreement of his new political party to the Ministry of the Interior, Jacques Bigirimana, chairman of FNL accuses him of stealing his party. Rwasa dismisses the accusations. Agathon Rwasa, First Deputy Speaker and leader of Amizero y\u2019Abarundi opposition coalition, says the name of the party in process of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":9447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,670],"tags":[1012,1236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10251,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10246\/revisions\/10251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}