{"id":15817,"date":"2020-04-21T06:48:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T06:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=15817"},"modified":"2020-04-22T07:00:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T07:00:19","slug":"2020-elections-kira-burundi-files-complaints-to-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/2020-elections-kira-burundi-files-complaints-to-president\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 elections: Kira Burundi files complaints to President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kira Burundi coalition submitted a memorandum, on April 15, to President Pierre Nkurunziza denouncing irregularities made by the electoral body in charge of organizing the upcoming elections. <\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15818\" style=\"width: 513px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15818\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-15818\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Aloys-Baricako.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Aloys-Baricako.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Aloys-Baricako-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Aloys-Baricako-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Aloys-Baricako-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15818\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aloys Baricako: \u201cThe electoral body seeks to discourage the coalition members and to ban them from doing political activities\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe want to raise a last alarming cry to the Head of State so that he can guarantee Kira Burundi coalition. We want to receive similar treatment as other competitors from the electoral body,\u201d says Aloys Baricako, Chairman of Kira Burundi coalition at a press conference. He says if other competitors have had the right to correct their lists and possibly add the missing parts, both in the municipal and legislative elections, there is no reason that this right should be denied to the coalition. \u201cWe are very concerned over CENI&#8217;s approach on transparency, fairness and exclusivity of the electoral process,\u201d he says adding that the electoral body would contradict the will of Burundi President.<\/p>\n<p>For him, the electoral body seeks to discourage the coalition members and \u201cto ban\u201d them from doing political activities. \u201cThe Head of State should positively or negatively reply to our concerns but the coalition must identify other strategies to be used,\u201d he says. Baricako has also indicated that the electoral body only validated the files of four provinces whereas the coalition submitted the files in 14 provinces in the legislative election. So far, Kira Burundi coalition will participate in the presidential and legislative elections set on May 20.<\/p>\n<p>Contacted, Jean Claude Karerwa Ndenzako, Spokesperson for President Pierre Nkurunziza says he will react after receiving the memorandum at the office of the President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kira Burundi coalition submitted a memorandum, on April 15, to President Pierre Nkurunziza denouncing irregularities made by the electoral body in charge of organizing the upcoming elections. \u201cWe want to raise a last alarming cry to the Head of State so that he can guarantee Kira Burundi coalition. We want to receive similar treatment as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,670],"tags":[1177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15817"}],"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=15817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15819,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15817\/revisions\/15819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}