{"id":7492,"date":"2017-12-21T06:52:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T06:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=7492"},"modified":"2017-12-21T06:56:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T06:56:20","slug":"sahwanya-frodebu-party-refuses-to-be-part-of-electoral-commissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/sahwanya-frodebu-party-refuses-to-be-part-of-electoral-commissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Sahwanya FRODEBU party refuses to be part of Electoral Commissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ph\u00e9nias Nigaba, spokesperson for Sahwanya FRODEBU says his party cannot send its candidates for the electoral commissions. He accuses the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI) of violating the law. He says the whole process of constitution amendment is illegal and against the Arusha Peace Agreement and Burundian Constitution.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7493\" style=\"width: 392px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7493\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-7493\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ph\u00e9nias-Nigaba-300x279.jpg\" alt=\"Ph\u00e9niasNigaba: \u201cGiving our candidates would mean that we support the violation of the constitution\" width=\"382\" height=\"355\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7493\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ph\u00e9niasNigaba: \u201cGiving our candidates would mean that we support the violation of the constitution<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The National Independent Electoral Commission-CENI <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/ceni-calls-for-applications-to-establish-provincial-electoral-commissions-for-upcoming-referendum\/\" target=\"_blank\">has recently launched a call for candidates\u2019 application at the provincial level<\/a> to help organise the upcoming constitutional referendum. SAHWANYA FRODEBU Party says, giving their candidates would mean helping them violate the constitution.&#8221;We cannot offer candidates who would bury the Arusha Peace Agreement and the constitution that resulted from it\u201d, says Mr Nigaba adding that the Arusha Agreement is the fundamental pillar of social peace and security.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Nigaba argues that the draft constitution to be submitted to the referendum contains many articles that are against the Arusha Peace Agreement namely the extension of the presidential term and the withdrawal of the former Heads of State from the Senate. He adds that SAHWANYA FRODEBU strictly adheres to the Arusha Peace Agreement and the Constitution it has endorsed.<\/p>\n<p>He reminds that there are Burundians who are deprived of their rights. \u201cMany Burundians from inside and outside the country are deprived of their constitutional right to actively and peacefully participate in the entire referendum process,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Agathon Rwasa, Chairman of Amizero y&#8217;Abarundi coalition and First Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, says applying to be a member of the Provincial Independent Electoral Commission-CEPI is a personal choice. He did not want to reveal whether or not his coalition has sent candidates for the commission.<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel Rufyiri, Chairman of the corruption watchdog- OLUCOME, says he is against the call for CEPI applications. &#8220;The entire process of revision of the constitution is unilateral and antidemocratic&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ph\u00e9nias Nigaba, spokesperson for Sahwanya FRODEBU says his party cannot send its candidates for the electoral commissions. He accuses the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI) of violating the law. He says the whole process of constitution amendment is illegal and against the Arusha Peace Agreement and Burundian Constitution. The National Independent Electoral Commission-CENI has recently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,670],"tags":[1012,952],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7492"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7494,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7492\/revisions\/7494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}