{"id":15243,"date":"2020-02-21T06:13:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T06:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=15243"},"modified":"2020-02-21T08:27:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T08:27:41","slug":"kira-burundi-new-political-coalition-for-upcoming-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/kira-burundi-new-political-coalition-for-upcoming-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00ab Kira Burundi \u00bb, new political coalition for upcoming elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four political parties namely CDP, RANAC, PAJUDE and FEDS have coalesced into \u201cKira Burundi\u201d for the 2020 elections.<br \/>\nAloys Baricako, chairman of the coalition says they want to join forces to win the forthcoming elections.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15222\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Coalition-Kira-burundi.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15222\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-15222\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Coalition-Kira-burundi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Coalition-Kira-burundi.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Coalition-Kira-burundi-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Coalition-Kira-burundi-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Coalition-Kira-burundi-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anicet Niyonkuru, chairman of CDP party (Left) and Aloys Baricako (Right) exhibiting the coalition\u2019s badge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cUnity is strength and we share the same society project,\u201d he has said, after submitting the requirements to the Ministry of Home Affairs, this February 20.<br \/>\nMr. Baricako has said members of \u201cKira Burundi\u201d coalition will choose their presidential candidate once the Ministry of Home Affairs has approved their request to participate in the 2020 elections as a coalition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect to elect the presidential candidate as soon as possible and we will participate in all types of elections,\u201d he said, calling other political parties to join the coalition.<br \/>\nBesides COPA 2020 which is made up of seven political parties, there are also 17 political parties and nine independent candidates that already <a href=\"https:\/\/iwacu.global.ssl.fastly.net\/englishnews\/political-parties-and-independent-candidates-align-on-ballot-paper\/\">confirmed<\/a> their participation in the 2020 elections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four political parties namely CDP, RANAC, PAJUDE and FEDS have coalesced into \u201cKira Burundi\u201d for the 2020 elections. Aloys Baricako, chairman of the coalition says they want to join forces to win the forthcoming elections. \u201cUnity is strength and we share the same society project,\u201d he has said, after submitting the requirements to the Ministry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15243"}],"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=15243"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15253,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15243\/revisions\/15253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}