{"id":15066,"date":"2020-02-04T06:20:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T06:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=15066"},"modified":"2020-02-04T06:20:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T06:20:28","slug":"over-5-million-burundians-registered-to-vote-in-upcoming-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/over-5-million-burundians-registered-to-vote-in-upcoming-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 5 million Burundians registered to vote in upcoming elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pierre Claver Kazihise, Chairman of the National Independent Electoral Commission-CENI has announced that the final list of Burundians who will cast a vote in the upcoming elections is available now.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13497\" style=\"width: 503px\" 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=\"493\" height=\"283\" 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: 493px) 100vw, 493px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pierre Claver Kazihise: &#8220;We have released these figures today to meet the already set schedule.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201c5,126,351 voters including 2, 688,803 women and 2,437,548 men have been registered for the forthcoming elections\u201d, said Mr. Kazihise at a press conference that the National Electoral Commission has held in Bujumbura City this February 3, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>He also said there are 12,933 Burundians living abroad who will participate in the next elections. \u201cWe are releasing these figures today to meet the already set schedule,\u201d he added.<br \/>\nIn 2015, CENI had registered over four million Burundians to vote in elections.<\/p>\n<p>On 20 May 2020, the presidential, legislative and communal councilors\u2019 elections will be organized according to the electoral code. The senators\u2019 election is scheduled for July 20, 2020 and the hill councilors\u2019 election for August 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pierre Claver Kazihise, Chairman of the National Independent Electoral Commission-CENI has announced that the final list of Burundians who will cast a vote in the upcoming elections is available now. \u201c5,126,351 voters including 2, 688,803 women and 2,437,548 men have been registered for the forthcoming elections\u201d, said Mr. Kazihise at a press conference that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[108,749],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15066"}],"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=15066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15067,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15066\/revisions\/15067"}],"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=15066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}