{"id":15824,"date":"2020-04-22T06:54:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T06:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=15824"},"modified":"2020-04-22T06:54:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T06:54:18","slug":"stakeholders-in-upcoming-elections-concerned-over-electoral-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/stakeholders-in-upcoming-elections-concerned-over-electoral-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Stakeholders in upcoming elections concerned over electoral process"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Independent Electoral Commission-CENI has met this April 21, all stakeholders involved in the elections starting this May 20 to discuss the electoral process. Participants have raised concerns related to electoral campaign which is about to get started. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Participants in the meeting organized by the CENI<\/p><\/div>\n

Annociate Niyonkuru, Deputy Chairman of the National Independent Electoral Commission has said the electoral campaign will start on 27 April and end on 17 May.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll stakeholders in the upcoming elections have 21 days to run electoral campaigns. They must abide by the electoral code. Otherwise, sanctions will be imposed,\u201d she has said, adding that each province will have its own specimen. \u201cNot all candidates are represented in all the provinces,\u201d she also said.<\/p>\n

Dieudonn\u00e9 Nahimana, an independent candidate running for president has asked when candidates are allowed to publish messages on the billboards.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome candidates have already published their posters on billboards. Is that legal when the presidential decree announcing the beginning the electoral campaign is yet to be issued?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n

For him, there is need to shed light on the right time and places where those billboards shall be established.<\/p>\n

As for L\u00e9once Ngendakumana, presidential candidate for Sahwanya FRODEBU Party, administrative officials should also intervene to prevent any potential trouble in the electoral period. \u201cThere are young people who often interfere in the administrative affairs. Local officials must be vigilant and regulate those activities. Otherwise, they will create chaos,\u201d he has said.<\/p>\n

Gabriel Banzawitonde, APDR Chairman has said the electoral body would distribute the specimen in all provinces, although some political parties may not be represented in each province. \u201cWe have party members in those provinces,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Pierre Claver Kazihise, CENI Chairman has said the electoral body is ready to handle all electoral issues according to the electoral code. \u201cAll party leaders must sensitize their members on the election process. We don\u2019t want to collect spoiled ballot papers,\u201d he said.
\nThat meeting organized by the National Independent Electoral Commission was attended by presidential candidates, leaders of political parties, provincial governors and security forces.<\/p>\n

On May 20, Burundi will organize three combined polls which are the presidential, legislative and the communal councilors\u2019 elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The National Independent Electoral Commission-CENI has met this April 21, all stakeholders involved in the elections starting this May 20 to discuss the electoral process. Participants have raised concerns related to electoral campaign which is about to get started. Annociate Niyonkuru, Deputy Chairman of the National Independent Electoral Commission has said the electoral campaign will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[1177,1302],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15824"}],"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=15824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15827,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15824\/revisions\/15827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}