{"id":8652,"date":"2018-05-09T06:54:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T06:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=8652"},"modified":"2018-05-10T11:24:25","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T11:24:25","slug":"no-foreign-observers-for-upcoming-referendum-so-far-says-ceni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/no-foreign-observers-for-upcoming-referendum-so-far-says-ceni\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNo foreign observers for upcoming referendum so far\u201d, says CENI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prosper Ntahorwamiye, Communication Commissioner at the National Independent Electoral Commission-CENI has said the commission is still waiting for the lists of international observers. \u201cCENI hasn\u2019t so far got the list of international organizations that wish to monitor this referendum and this is done through diplomatic missions,\u201d says Ntahorwamiye.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8661\" style=\"width: 437px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8661\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-8661\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/election-observator-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"International observers were sent to monitor the conduct of the 2015 elections in Burundi\" width=\"427\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/election-observator-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/election-observator-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/election-observator-600x345.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/election-observator.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">International observers were sent to monitor the conduct of the 2015 elections in Burundi<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He says the electoral commission has received 1,189 local observers from 39 civil society organizations that demanded and were allowed to oversee the referendum scheduled for May 17.<br \/>\n\u201cThe provincial electoral commissions-CEPI are also giving accreditations to those who want to be observers at the local level,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>The communication commissioner says the accreditation is also provided to representatives of political parties which have registered with the National Electoral Commission to run the campaign for the constitutional referendum.<\/p>\n<p>The number of people expected to vote throughout the country is 4, 768,142. The withdrawal of voting cards will start from 9 to 13 May. The commission\u2019s agents who will be in charge of distributing them will be present in the voting centers from 7:30 am to 5:30 pm. Voters will bring their identity cards and registration papers to get their cards. \u201cEven those who have lost their registration papers will have their cards because they are already registered,\u201d says Ntahorwamiye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosper Ntahorwamiye, Communication Commissioner at the National Independent Electoral Commission-CENI has said the commission is still waiting for the lists of international observers. \u201cCENI hasn\u2019t so far got the list of international organizations that wish to monitor this referendum and this is done through diplomatic missions,\u201d says Ntahorwamiye. He says the electoral commission has received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8661,"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\/8652"}],"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=8652"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8662,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8652\/revisions\/8662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}