{"id":14404,"date":"2019-11-08T06:53:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T06:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=14404"},"modified":"2019-11-08T15:31:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T15:31:19","slug":"national-electoral-commission-deplores-persistence-of-political-intolerance-in-burundi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/national-electoral-commission-deplores-persistence-of-political-intolerance-in-burundi\/","title":{"rendered":"National electoral commission deplores persistence of political intolerance in Burundi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pierre Claver Kazihise, Chairman of the National Independent Electoral Commission \u2013CENI says it is unfortunate that there are still reports of political intolerance throughout the country six months before the 2020 elections.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13497\" style=\"width: 499px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13497\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-13497\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Kazihise.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"489\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Kazihise.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Kazihise-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Kazihise-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Kazihise-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pierre Claver Kazihise: &#8220;Bad behaviors may also hinder the 2020 elections\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis is a clear indication that some people have not benefited from the campaign on the strengthening of the democratic culture initiated in the country since April 2019,\u201d he says.<br \/>\nMr. Kazihise adds that the campaign was aimed at ensuring that there is no more behavior contrary to peaceful coexistence among members of political parties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBad behavior may also hinder the 2020 elections,\u201d he says, adding that a sensitization campaign should continue to promote democratic values, human rights and peaceful coexistence among members of political parties especially in the run-up to the elections.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, he says, the recalcitrant people will be punished in accordance with the law.<br \/>\nHe has said that in a press conference organized on the publication of provisional lists of voters in the 2020 elections from 9 to 12 December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pierre Claver Kazihise, Chairman of the National Independent Electoral Commission \u2013CENI says it is unfortunate that there are still reports of political intolerance throughout the country six months before the 2020 elections. \u201cThis is a clear indication that some people have not benefited from the campaign on the strengthening of the democratic culture initiated in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,670],"tags":[1177,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14404"}],"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=14404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14405,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14404\/revisions\/14405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}