{"id":16023,"date":"2020-05-08T07:42:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T07:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=16023"},"modified":"2020-05-08T07:42:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T07:42:04","slug":"majority-of-voters-received-voting-cards-ceni-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/majority-of-voters-received-voting-cards-ceni-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority of voters received voting cards, CENI reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Almost 90% of voters withdrew their voting cards within the time limit set by the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI),&#8221; said Pierre Claver Kazihise, Chairman of CENI at a press conference held in the afternoon of 6 May.<br \/>\nThe electoral commission conducted activities to issue voting cards to citizens from 30 April to 4 May.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16015\" style=\"width: 506px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16015\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-16015\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Pierre-Claver-Kazihise.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Pierre-Claver-Kazihise.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Pierre-Claver-Kazihise-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Pierre-Claver-Kazihise-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Pierre-Claver-Kazihise-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pierre Claver Kazihise, CENI Chairman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Kazihise said more than 90% of voters withdrew their voting cards in 11 provinces of the country while 80% of them took theirs in six provinces.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is only in one province &#8211; Bujumbura City &#8211; that 70% of voters received their cards,&#8221; said Kazihise adding that the activities of issuing voting cards will continue.<br \/>\n&#8220;Those who have not withdrawn their cards will be able to take them at the offices of the Independent Communal Electoral Commission until 12 May,&#8221; said CENI Chairman adding that after this date, CECI members will be conducting other activities.<\/p>\n<p>He calls on citizens to withdraw their voting cards so that they can participate in the presidential, legislative and municipal elections scheduled for 20 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Almost 90% of voters withdrew their voting cards within the time limit set by the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI),&#8221; said Pierre Claver Kazihise, Chairman of CENI at a press conference held in the afternoon of 6 May. The electoral commission conducted activities to issue voting cards to citizens from 30 April to 4 May. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":16015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[1177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16023"}],"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=16023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16024,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16023\/revisions\/16024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}