{"id":8439,"date":"2018-04-13T15:53:40","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T15:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=8439"},"modified":"2018-04-13T16:02:05","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T16:02:05","slug":"candidacies-of-independents-rejected-for-upcoming-referendum-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/candidacies-of-independents-rejected-for-upcoming-referendum-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidacies of independents rejected for upcoming referendum campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The applications of three independents who have registered to campaign for the upcoming referendum have been all rejected by the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7955\" style=\"width: 405px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7955\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-7955\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Pierre-claver-Ndayicariye-300x281.jpg\" alt=\"Pierre Claver Ndayicariye: \u201cThe candidacies of three independents were rejected because they contained irregularities\u201d.\" width=\"395\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Pierre-claver-Ndayicariye-300x281.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Pierre-claver-Ndayicariye-600x561.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Pierre-claver-Ndayicariye.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7955\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pierre Claver Ndayicariye: \u201cThe candidacies of three independents were rejected because they contained irregularities\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Pierre Claver Ndayicariye, Chairman of CENI says the candidatures of Silas Simbandumwe, Jean Daniel Gerero, and MP Fabien Banciryanino were refused because they contained some irregularities.<br \/>\nMr Ndayicariye says Silas Simbandumwe decided to withdraw his candidacy himself and CENI had noticed confusing information on his identity card. \u201cThe names of the province and commune written on his ID do not exist in Burundi,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>For Jean Daniel Gerero, CENI chairman says the inquiries into his character have motivated the withdrawal of his name from the list of independents. \u201cThe commission also contacted his family that confirmed its doubts and asked the rejection of his candidature&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Ndayicariye says MP Fabien Banciryanino is a member of Amizeroy&#8217;Abarundi coalition and the latter has already registered for the referendum campaign. \u201cAfter the commission has asked the institutions, it found that Baciryanino is an MP who represents \u2018Amizero y&#8217;Abarundi\u2019 coalition. Consequently, he could not be admitted as an independent candidate&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The chairman of CENI says there remain 26 political parties and one coalition of independents. He also says the draft decree to open the electoral campaign scheduled for May 17 has already been submitted to be examined by competent authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The applications of three independents who have registered to campaign for the upcoming referendum have been all rejected by the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI). Pierre Claver Ndayicariye, Chairman of CENI says the candidatures of Silas Simbandumwe, Jean Daniel Gerero, and MP Fabien Banciryanino were refused because they contained some irregularities. Mr Ndayicariye says Silas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":8441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,670],"tags":[113,1284],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8439"}],"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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8440,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8439\/revisions\/8440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}