{"id":13434,"date":"2019-08-13T06:49:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T06:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=13434"},"modified":"2019-08-13T06:49:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T06:49:15","slug":"cndd-ready-to-participate-in-2020-elections-says-spokesman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/cndd-ready-to-participate-in-2020-elections-says-spokesman\/","title":{"rendered":"CNDD ready to participate in 2020 elections, says spokesman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a press conference held this August 12, Gaspard Kobako, Spokesperson for the party National Council for the Defense of Democracy-CNDD has said members of the party will participate in the 2020 elections if nothing hinders the electoral process. \u201cWe have already shown our will to participate in the 2020 elections and our members are getting ready for that national event,\u201d he says.<br \/>\nHowever, if the persecution against CNDD party members continues, they will withdraw from the electoral process, he adds.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13431\" style=\"width: 556px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13431\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-13431\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/kobako.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"546\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/kobako.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/kobako-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/kobako-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/kobako-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13431\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gaspard Kobako: \u201cWe will participate in the 2020 elections if nothing hinders the process.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>CNDD party spokesman says the inclusion of their members among the communal and provincial electoral commissions will prove that the party will participate in the 2020 elections. \u201cWe want to work in good condition. We don\u2019t want to get into troubles with any person,\u201d he says.<br \/>\nGaspard Kobako exhorts the National Independent Electoral Commission to include as many political parties as possible in the commission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the government didn\u2019t consider our suggestions when it appointed the members of the National Electoral Commission, we would appreciate it if it includes us in the communal and provincial commissions,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>CNDD Spokesperson urges the government to release political detainees, stop the persecution of members of the opposition, repatriate all refugees, and suspend the arrest warrants for political leaders and human rights defenders suspected of having participated in the 2015 protests. Gaspard Kobako also says that there is no arrest warrant against L\u00e9onard Nyangoma, CNDD party chairman. \u201cWhenever he wishes to return home, he will do it\u201d, says Kobako. L\u00e9onard Nyangoma left the country in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a press conference held this August 12, Gaspard Kobako, Spokesperson for the party National Council for the Defense of Democracy-CNDD has said members of the party will participate in the 2020 elections if nothing hinders the electoral process. \u201cWe have already shown our will to participate in the 2020 elections and our members are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[1177,985],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13434"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13435,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13434\/revisions\/13435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}