{"id":15774,"date":"2020-04-17T06:58:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T06:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=15774"},"modified":"2020-04-17T06:58:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T06:58:14","slug":"burundi-suspends-presidential-election-for-burundians-living-abroad-amid-covid-19-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/burundi-suspends-presidential-election-for-burundians-living-abroad-amid-covid-19-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi suspends presidential election for Burundians living abroad amid COVID-19 outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a correspondence he submitted to the Burundian diplomatic and consular representatives abroad this April 15, Ez\u00e9chiel Nibigira, Minister of Foreign Affairs has said the National Independent Electoral Commission\u2013CENI is unable to organize the elections including presidential, legislative and district councilors scheduled for May 20, abroad.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15775\" style=\"width: 494px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15775\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-15775\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bdais-etranger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"484\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bdais-etranger.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bdais-etranger-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bdais-etranger-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bdais-etranger-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Burundians living overseas won\u2019t participate in the presidential election<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe current health situation characterized by the measures imposed to curb the spread of COVID-19 in different countries doesn\u2019t allow the free movement to the embassies,\u201d says the Minister, adding that the National electoral commission therefore regrets not being able to organize these elections due to this pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The National Independent Electoral Commission had said 5,126,351 voters including 12,933 Burundians living abroad would participate in the 2020 elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a correspondence he submitted to the Burundian diplomatic and consular representatives abroad this April 15, Ez\u00e9chiel Nibigira, Minister of Foreign Affairs has said the National Independent Electoral Commission\u2013CENI is unable to organize the elections including presidential, legislative and district councilors scheduled for May 20, abroad. \u201cThe current health situation characterized by the measures imposed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[1177,1414],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15774"}],"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=15774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15776,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15774\/revisions\/15776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}