{"id":15514,"date":"2020-03-24T08:55:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T08:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=15514"},"modified":"2020-03-24T09:25:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T09:25:47","slug":"ceni-intends-to-exclude-kira-burundi-from-2020-elections-legal-representative-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/ceni-intends-to-exclude-kira-burundi-from-2020-elections-legal-representative-says\/","title":{"rendered":"CENI intends to exclude Kira-Burundi from 2020 elections, legal representative says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Political Coalition Kira Burundi accuses the Electoral Commission of deliberately trying to exclude it from the upcoming 2020 elections. At a press conference held on 23 March, Aloys Baricako, Kira-Burundi legal representative referred to the fact that e CENI rejected all the candidacies submitted for the next legislative elections and those of communal councilors scheduled for May 2020.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15510\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15510\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-15510\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Conf\u00e9rence-de-presse-Kira-Burundi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Conf\u00e9rence-de-presse-Kira-Burundi.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Conf\u00e9rence-de-presse-Kira-Burundi-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Conf\u00e9rence-de-presse-Kira-Burundi-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Conf\u00e9rence-de-presse-Kira-Burundi-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15510\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aloys Baricako, Legal Representative of Kira-Burundi political coalition in the left<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8221; CENI is violating Article 90 of the Constitution stipulating that the electoral commission guarantees free, impartial and independent elections,&#8221; said Baricako, who believes that the validation of the candidacy of the representative of this coalition in the next presidential election by the Constitutional Court is a victory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iwacu.global.ssl.fastly.net\/englishnews\/constitutional-court-approves-candidacy-of-ndayizeye-for-presidential-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Constitutional Court approved<\/a> on 19 March the candidacy of Domitien Ndayizeye, representative of Kira-Burundi in the presidential election after appealing against CENI which had rejected this candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>Baricako says this coalition has lodged a complaint to the same court against CENI after the latter announced on 19 March that all Kira-Burundi candidacies for the legislative elections had been rejected.<\/p>\n<p>The representative of Kira-Burundi says that CENI accuses this coalition of coalescing with political independents and that the candidates&#8217; files have been submitted by proxy. \u201cCENI must apply Article 80 of the Constitution which guarantees non-interference in the internal functioning of political parties,&#8221; said Baricako.<\/p>\n<p>Pierre Claver Kazihise, CENI chairman rejects Kira-Burundi accusations. He calls on all those who feel aggrieved to file a complaint to the Constitutional Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Political Coalition Kira Burundi accuses the Electoral Commission of deliberately trying to exclude it from the upcoming 2020 elections. At a press conference held on 23 March, Aloys Baricako, Kira-Burundi legal representative referred to the fact that e CENI rejected all the candidacies submitted for the next legislative elections and those of communal councilors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":15510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,670],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15514"}],"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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15517,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15514\/revisions\/15517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}