{"id":16422,"date":"2020-06-19T15:40:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T15:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=16422"},"modified":"2020-06-19T15:40:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T15:40:27","slug":"politicians-diverge-on-new-presidents-speech-about-opposition-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/politicians-diverge-on-new-presidents-speech-about-opposition-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Politicians diverge on new President\u2019s speech about opposition role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the swearing-in ceremony at \u201cIngoma\u201d stadium in Gitega province on June 18, President Evariste Ndayishimiye has said opposition political parties and insurrection won\u2019t have place in Burundi. \u201cIf they don\u2019t agree with the Burundian government, which one they will share views?\u201d he wonders. He, however, says they should share views. He also said members of all political parties or civil society should express freely. He said no one will have more access to the government than others. \u201cAll Burundians are equal in front of the law and I am here to defend it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16415\" style=\"width: 471px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16415\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-16415\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Une-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Une-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Une-2-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Une-2-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Une-2-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16415\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Evariste Ndayishimiye<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gabriel Banzawitonde, Chairman of APDR party appreciates the speech delivered by the new President. He says it will be a good opportunity for all political parties to share their views for the country\u2019s development. He, however, those political parties must abide by the law. \u201cThe government has its own rules and laws that should be respected\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n<p>Gaspard Kobako, Spokesperson for CNDD party says all political parties have the right to give their points of view in democracy. \u201cWe are not forced to agree with different views from political parties. We are in competition,\u201d he says adding that criticisms from opposition political parties show the government what is going wrong. \u201cIt should consider them or not,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>On June 18, Evariste Ndayishimiye who was sworn in as new President to serve a seven-year term which should be renewed once, will succeed President Pierre Nkurunziza who passed away due to cardiac arrest on June 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the swearing-in ceremony at \u201cIngoma\u201d stadium in Gitega province on June 18, President Evariste Ndayishimiye has said opposition political parties and insurrection won\u2019t have place in Burundi. \u201cIf they don\u2019t agree with the Burundian government, which one they will share views?\u201d he wonders. He, however, says they should share views. He also said members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16422"}],"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=16422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16423,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16422\/revisions\/16423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}